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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Fitz Sunglasses
Disruptive Technologies E-commerce Retail

How Fitz Frames uses mobile-first to beat e-commerce and COVID-19 challenges

It’s one thing to start a business as an entrepreneur and survive the first year. It’s an even bigger badge of success to ...
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branchless banking future
Banking Cybersecurity

The biggest danger to branchless banking?

With a third of the global population on lockdown and scores of bank branches closed, many are convinced that branch banking is dead, ...
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US e-commerce during pandemic
E-commerce Retail

Who’s thriving with e-commerce sales during the pandemic?

There’s lots of chatter and noise about the importance of e-commerce and how merchants are doing with online sales during the coronavirus crisis. ...
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global pandemic research McKinsey
E-commerce Retail

McKinsey: Global consumer sentiment – Situation “normal”, whatever that is

McKinsey’s new research report, with insight on shifting consumer sentiment over a five-week timeframe of the global pandemic in 42 countries is an ...
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UK fintechs have lessons for US digital banks
Banking Disruptive Technologies Fintech

Fintech in America: Lessons from across the pond

By Giffard Hogge, Product Manager, Somo The UK and the United States share culture, history, and language. But it is only after moving ...
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COVID-19 relief payments
Payments Research Payments Trends

Coronavirus stimulus check consumers are paying their bills and clinging to cash

If you were one of the fortunate 150 million or so US citizens to receive a $1200 COVID-19 Relief Check in April, you ...
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e-commerce is growing in the post-pandemic world
E-commerce Retail

Consumer purchase and fraud trends shift with reopening

Fraud prevention and payments leader Forter is closely monitoring the buying trends of consumers and the incidence of fraud during the pandemic and ...
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May 22 global payments news
Banking E-commerce Fintech

May 22 Global payments news roundup: PayPal QR codes, vendor payments, US bank loans relax, Amazon/JCPenney, trust in banks, Alibaba growth, more…

Welcome to our Friday payments, fintech, and e-commerce news roundup with the business intelligence to keep you ahead of your competition. It was ...
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pandemic leads to banking turbulence
Banking Fintech

Remaking banking services after the pandemic

The fast-changing habits and needs of consumers, partly shaped by the coronavirus pandemic, will require banking and financial service leaders to adjust their ...
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post-pandemic retail future
E-commerce Retail

April US retail sales worst on record: What are consumers planning next?

US Department of Commerce statistics showed a worst-ever record 9% decrease in April 2020 US retail sales as COVID-19 stay-at-home orders hit the ...
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