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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Intuit plans $7.1 billion takeover of Credit Karma
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Inside the $7.1 billion Intuit – Credit Karma deal

Yesterday’s announcement of the planned $7.1 billion acquisition of Credit Karma by Intuit represents the impact and the opportunity that fintech presents to ...
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Brazil introduces real-time digital payments
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Brazil’s Central Bank plans new real-time digital payment system

Brazil’s central bank – Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) – launched testing of a new real-time digital payment system based on QR codes ...
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