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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Fintech Payments Technology Payments Trends

Navigating payments automation, COVID impact, and finding success

Q2 earnings reports are ramping up and it’s clear some companies are having very positive numbers for a couple of big reasons. One ...
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Chargebacks Credit Card & Online Fraud Cybersecurity

Chargebacks: All about the direct and hidden costs to business

By Douglas Hall, Publisher, PaymentsNEXT As if shopping cart abandonment, false credit card declines, and the pandemic aren’t causing enough problems for retailers ...
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Banking E-commerce Fintech

The role of payments innovation in small business: Brazil perspective

By Augusto Lins When it comes to adopting digital payments technology – the US market is a well-known laggard. In fact, as of ...
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Vietnam's e-commerce economy is growing fast
Banking E-commerce Payments Technology Payments Trends

Decoding Asia-Pacific’s payments & e-commerce landscape

By: Tristian Chiappini  Asia-Pacific (APAC) is both a fascinating and complex region when it comes to its e-commerce landscape. With the ubiquitous use ...
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Bitcoin & Blockchain Logistics

Walmart Canada finds big savings in blockchain automation

When it comes to the benefits of automation in logistics, a big organization like Walmart can benefit hugely. With blockchain gaining mainstream acceptance, ...
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Banking Bitcoin & Blockchain Payments Research

B2B cross-border payments may recover 30% by 2022

A new study from Juniper Research predicts the total value of B2B cross-border payments will reach $35 trillion in 2022 from a COVID-related low ...
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Banking Payments Trends Retail

ChargeAfter partners with Visa for consumer installment payments

In a new partnership with Visa, technology platform ChargeAfter becomes the first fintech to offer Visa installment point-of-sale payments in the US which ...
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Credit Card & Online Fraud Cybersecurity

E-gift cards see 820% jump in malicious attacks in 2020

While the popularity of e-gift cards is growing, it’s also accompanied by an increase in malicious attacks with the onset of COVID-19. Among ...
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Banking E-commerce Payments Research Payments Trends

Canadians toss the cash, forgo bank branches, embrace contactless payments

New research from McKinsey shows Canadian consumers avoided cash and bank branches in May over the fear of COVID-19 and turned to contactless ...
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COVID-19 disruption creates opportunity
E-commerce Retail

McKinsey: Post-COVID-19 business recovery could take 5 years

A new McKinsey report says post-COVID-19 business recovery could take five or more years depending on the size of business and sector. The ...
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