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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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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April 6 Global payments news roundup

We’re starting this week with a big global payments news roundup since there’s so much going on in the payments, fintech, and e-commerce ...
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Companies doing GOOD during coronavirus pandemic

It’s a sad reality that so many businesses have closed, laid-off employees, seen massive revenue decreases, and suffered other harsh impacts from the ...
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Cashless or classless: The flaws in today’s payment debate

By: Steve Villegas, VP of Payment Partnerships at PPRO There is a constant debate on whether global economies should continue to offer cash ...
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First of month rent, mortgage and lease payments raise US financial concerns

Only about one-third of US workers can work from home and they earn about 45% of the country’s wages. Being the first of ...
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Mar 30: Payments, e-commerce & retail news roundup & coronavirus insights

In the spirit of sharing as much strategic information and business intelligence as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve got another news roundup ...
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TransUnion reports both e-commerce growth and COVID-19 fraud increase

Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a pandemic on March 11th, new research by TransUnion identified a 23% ...
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Will your supply chain survive the coronavirus pandemic?

The supply chain for products around the world, no matter the source country, is stressed and stretched beyond belief. It’s an open question ...
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Retail wrestles with COVID-19 around the world

Other than hospitals, no one is harder hit than retailers around the world and online. Merchants face growing challenges with their supply chain, ...
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