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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Payments Trends Retail

NYC bans cashless-only payments in stores and restaurants

New York City, the country’s largest, became the third US city to banish cashless-only transactions following similar bans in San Francisco and Philadelphia ...
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Australia brushfires
Credit Card & Online Fraud Cybersecurity

Latest Magecart e-commerce attack hits nonprofit Australian brushfire donors

What do these companies all have in common? British Airways, Ticketmaster, Newegg, Delta Airlines, Sears, Proctor & Gamble, and Macy’s. If you’re in ...
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rise of UK neobanks
Banking Fintech

Why Neobanks are gaining ground with UK consumers and business

New research by SmallBusinessPrices.co.uk analyzes how neobanks are on the rise and why they’re so popular with a growing number of UK banking customers compared ...
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payments industry predictions
Banking Fintech Payments Technology

2020 will be a transformational year in payments technology

By Vinay Kashyap, Mainsail Partners As 2020 gets underway, the upheavals that shook the payments industry over the past year show no sign ...
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e-commerce will grow quickly in 2020 globally
E-commerce Payments Trends

2020 predictions: Global growth of e-commerce

By Stefan Merz, COO at PPRO The e-commerce market is set for exponential growth – it is predicted that global e-commerce retail sales ...
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Amazon calls Honey app a security risk
E-commerce

Amazon calls PayPal’s Honey discount shopping app a security risk

When we last covered Honey last November, it was just acquired by PayPal for $4 billion. Analysts weren’t quite sure what to make ...
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Visa's Tap to Pay turns Samsung smartphone into POS device
Banking E-commerce Mobile Payments Payments Technology

Visa, Samsung collaborate on payments and smartphone POS solution

A new collaboration between Visa and smartphone maker Samsung electronics brings simple mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) payment capability to millions of businesses without the ...
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Standard Chartered Bank SWIFT gpi
Banking Payments Technology Payments Trends

Standard Chartered launches first payments tracking ahead of SWIFT Nov 2020 deadline

Back in July 2019, more than 50 banks and corporations signed up with SWIFT to initiate SWIFT GPI tracking of international payments as ...
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Mastercard augmented reality app
Banking Loyalty

Mastercard holders get augmented reality app to view benefits

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) brought an interesting launch by MasterCard for an augmented reality (AR) app designed to give cardholders a 3-D, ...
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Lamborghini Huracan EVO voice services
Mobile Payments Payments Technology Payments Trends

Hey Alexa, fill up my gas tank

It’s getting to the point where voice skills like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant can do just about everything except give the kids ...
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