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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Disruptive Technologies Fintech

Are world’s most unbanked countries fintech opportunities?

By Jeff Domansky, April 26, 2021 Any idea who the world’s biggest unbanked countries are? New data from Finbold paints an interesting picture ...
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Fintech Payments Trends

Global payments news roundup: Afterpay, Amazon, FIS, Amex, more…

By Jeff Domansky, April 23, 2021 We’ve got a Friday global payment news roundup to keep you at full speed as you follow ...
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Fintech Mobile Payments

Four Lessons from the Best Fintech Apps

By KC Karnes, April 21, 2021 The fintech industry is having a moment, and it’s likely to last for many years. At the ...
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Afraid of our finances?
Banking Payments Research Payments Trends

How big is our fear of financial fees?

By Jeff Domansky, April 19, 2021 April is National Financial Literacy Month in the US, and we can all forget about the fear ...
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mortgage payments key during pandemic
Payments Research Payments Trends

Covid-19 spending: Mortgages mattered most in US

By Jeff Domansky, April 15, 2021 According to new research, when it comes to consumer spending priorities during Covid-19, mortgages mattered most, followed ...
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Buy Now Pay Later

Splitit opens BNPL access to 9 billion UnionPay cardholders

By Jeff Domansky, April 13, 2021 It’s getting crowded in the buy now pay later (BNPL) marketplace, but hustle and innovation can differentiate ...
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Banking Loyalty Payments Trends

Do we need Instacart & DoorDash credit cards?

By Jeff Domansky, April 9, 2021 Grocery delivery app Instacart and restaurant delivery firm DoorDash are both planning to issue credit cards soon. ...
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Cybersecurity E-commerce

New fraud solution aims to increase approvals for Magento merchants

By Jeff Domansky, April 8, 2021 False declines are a $430 billion-plus global headache for retailers. A new Forter-Adobe collaboration aims to help ...
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Dwolla adds real-time payments
Banking Payments Technology

Dwolla launches real-time payment options for business

By Jeff Domansky, April 6, 2021 Fintech payments provider Dwolla launched real-time payment services for businesses of all sizes in partnership with Cross ...
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Chargebacks Credit Card & Online Fraud

530,000 refunds and a $64 million payments lesson for all

By Jeff Domansky, April 5, 2021 The New York Times recently broke the story about a payments scam by the Trump 2020 campaign ...
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