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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Coronavirus provides Chris is coming danger, and opportunity
Banking E-commerce Retail

3 weeks later, COVID-19 is no longer a “Chinese virus”

While US payments, fintech, and e-commerce are our focus, we tend to look globally for insight and business intelligence. Six weeks ago we ...
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coronavirus impact on fintech, banks
Banking E-commerce Fintech

How will the coronavirus affect fintech?

With financial markets plummeting and whole countries under quarantine, it is unclear what the fintech industry will look like after the global pandemic.  ...
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coronavirus impact on business
E-commerce Retail

A terrible case of coronavirus impact on global business

We’ve got our usual Friday weekly roundup of global payments news. The theme this week is COVID-19 and it’s growing impact on business ...
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Japanese e-commerce is growing quickly
E-commerce Payments Research

Why 2020 is the year of cross-border e-commerce in Japan

Kelvin Phua, Global Head of Payment Networks at PPRO, explores the possibilities offered by the cross-border e-commerce market in Japan Japan is the world’s third-biggest economy. ...
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100 biggest global marketplaces
E-commerce Retail

What’s the world’s biggest online marketplace? Hint, not Amazon

One might assume Amazon is the world’s largest e-commerce marketplace and you’d be wrong according to a new report by Digital Commerce 360. ...
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Walmart+ membership plan competes with Amazon Prime
E-commerce Loyalty Retail

Walmart’s new membership challenges Amazon Prime: Analysis

Hey Amazon Prime, meet your new membership neighbor – Walmart+. Walmart’s new paid membership program is a direct shot across the bow at ...
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March 4 global payments news
Banking E-commerce Fintech

March 4: Big global payments news roundup

There is so much happening in the payments and e-commerce world globally, it’s time to do a solid news roundup and share some ...
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2019 US coffee sales $47.5 billion
Payments Trends Retail

Unlimited Coffee-as-a-Service?

It was inevitable. You can get pretty much Anything-as-a-Service thanks to the cloud. That includes payments, banking, insurance, investment advice, cloud storage, clothing, ...
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Coronavirus impacts US retail and business
E-commerce Retail

Coronavirus is chilling US retail sales in-store and online

While retail sales started the year on a positive note in-store and online, the threat of Coronavirus is now having a measurable impact ...
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banks need to remove barriers for small business
Banking Fintech

Banking hurdles: 5 Issues small businesses are facing

By Cameron Peake, co-founder & CEO of Azlo As a founder who has spent most of my career in financial services, I intimately ...
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