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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Banking Mobile Payments Payments Research

Report: Guess where the fastest-growing mobile wallets are?

By Jeff Domansky With more than 2.8 billion mobile wallets in use worldwide at the end of 2020 and the impact of the ...
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Branson-Bezos bragging rights
Banking Payments Trends

July 2 global payments news roundup

Out of this world! That pretty much sums up this week’s global payments news, and it’s only Friday. Branson and Bezos may be ...
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Payments Research Payments Trends

Cash flow constrictions cramping small business growth

By Jeff Domansky The majority of small businesses in six countries (60%) experience cash flow issues at some point, so it’s no surprise ...
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Consumer payment fails
Fintech Mobile Payments Payments Research

Research: What consumers say about bill payments? Fail

By Jeff Domansky A new bill payment study shows US consumers struggling with cumbersome bill pay processes and wanting faster, easier bill payments ...
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Payments Research

Consumers in hardship programs continued payments during Covid

By Jeff Domansky The pandemic imposed terrible health and financial hardships on consumers everywhere, with an estimated 7.48% of US mortgage accounts in ...
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Disruptive Technologies

Baidu’s autonomous robotaxi service is live in Beijing

By Jeff Domansky At PaymentsNEXT, we’re usually focused on the payments industry, fintech, technology, payments trends, and new developments. Once in a while, ...
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PayPal merchant fee increase
Banking E-commerce Payments Trends

What’s behind PayPal’s new US payment pricing strategy?

By Jeff Domansky Understandably, PayPal’s new payment pricing strategy attracted a lot of attention. After all, the company is one of the biggest ...
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Dwolla low-code API components
Fintech Payments Technology

New Dwolla low-code API integration saves time, money

By Jeff Domansky Dwolla announced new Drop-In Components in its continued effort to lighten the technical lift of integrating a payment API. The ...
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WEX partners with Emburse, TransferMte
Fintech Payments Technology

WEX adds new cross-border & payments automation partnerships

By Jeff Domansky The global B2B payments market is projected to reach $63 billion by 2026, while the global accounts payable automation market ...
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E-commerce Payments Research

Quick take: SE Asia’s e-commerce goldrush

By Jeff Domansky As excitement builds regarding a return to “normal,” it’s helpful to look around the globe and see which economies are ...
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