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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E-commerce Retail

Which businesses are thriving during COVID-19?

While most US small businesses are shut down, unable to operate online, and facing possible permanent closures, some companies have seen dramatic sales ...
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Credit Card & Online Fraud Cybersecurity

Payments fintech PAAY exposes 2.5M credit card numbers

A large payments database owned by New York mobile payments processor PAAY left millions of credit card and other payments transactions exposed for ...
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Credit Card & Online Fraud Cybersecurity

The challenging state of small business cybersecurity

New research from business news site The Manifest shows 15% of US small businesses suffered a hack (7%), virus attack (5%), or data ...
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Banking Fintech

Is a Google smart debit card a smart move?

Word surfaced on the weekend that Google is working on plans to introduce a smart debit card to the marketplace to complement its ...
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E-commerce Fintech Retail

Global payments news roundup: April 19

The week raced by with payments, fintech and e-commerce news from around the world mostly revolving around coronavirus with some interesting standouts in ...
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Cybersecurity

Business scams, email fraud growing during coronavirus pandemic

Last week, both the FBI and the IRS issued warnings of increased business and consumer fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research from security ...
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Credit Card & Online Fraud E-commerce Payments Trends

Ticketmaster decides ripping off consumers is okay

In a headshaking, tone-deaf move especially during the coronavirus pandemic, the brain trust at Ticketmaster has decided to add to the misery of ...
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Payments Research Payments Trends

Two-thirds of international students prefer familiar tuition payment options

A new report by payments company Flywire says 67% of international students are concerned if they can’t use their tuition payment method of ...
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April 10 Payments NEXT big global news roundup

The weeks are sliding by slowly as we all stay at home and wait out the COVID-19 crisis. Today, on this Good Friday, ...
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Forter Fraud Index, 8th Edition
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Coronavirus insights enhance annual Forter Fraud Attack Index research

Forter today released the 8th edition of its Fraud Attack Index, a comprehensive trend report on sophisticated fraud attack vectors and the evolution of fraud. Forter ...
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