What the 2025 Chargeback Surge Means for Banks and Merchants

By Douglas Hall, Founder & CEO of EQUE If you’re a financial institution or merchant hoping that chargebacks will plateau anytime soon, I’ve got news for you: they won’t. The just-released 2025 State of Chargebacks report from Datos Insights and Ethoca confirms what many of ...
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EU anti-money laundering regulations
Cybersecurity

What new EU AML initiatives mean for money laundering fight

By Martin Cheek, VP, SmartSearch Money laundering is a perennial problem for institutions around the world. Only last year, the US passed a ...
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Global CNP fraud hits 13% with costs to merchants rising fast

By Jeff Domansky A 15-month research study by global payments provider Vesta shows that from 10% to as many as 13% of card-not-present ...
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Dog Days news edition
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Aug 31 Global payments news roundup

As we approach the end of the dog days of summer, we’ve got a roundup highlighting the latest global payments news. We start ...
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TSYS payments outage hits customers
Banking Payments Technology

Who’s your backup payment processor in an outage?

By Jeff Domansky Four days ago, global payment processor TSYS platform went offline, and merchants and ISOs are still waiting for an explanation. ...
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Aug 23 Global payments news roundup: Focus on fraud

Today’s PaymentsNEXT news roundup is focused on fraud. As e-commerce grows so is fraud. We’ve got highlights of the latest fraud stats, trends ...
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Aug 18 global payments news
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August 18: PaymentsNEXT Global payment news roundup

Lots of global payment news rolling out as PayPal cancels international BNPL fees, Paysafe spends $441 million to acquire SafetyPay, record half-year VC ...
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Aug 11 Global payments news roundup

The worldwide payments news keeps on rolling, and we’ve got a roundup to keep you current. Merchants and Amazon are upping their efforts ...
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Real-time business payments in Canada take a giant step

By Jeff Domansky Interac Corp and 13 leading Canadian financial institution members launched Interac e-Transfer for Business, providing real-time digital payments to personal and ...
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Do CAPTCHAs work?
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Payment security, CAPTCHAs, and more than meets the AI

by Jeff Domansky Despite the promise of AI and its potential as a security tool, we’ve fallen into a world of pain when ...
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BNPL market heats up
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BNPL heats up with Visa, Apple, PayPal, Discover initiatives

By Jeff Domansky If there was ever any doubt that buy now, pay later was mainstream worldwide, we can put that notion to ...
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