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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Amazon Q4 financials impress
E-commerce Retail

Amazon provides powerhouse earnings report

Amazon over-delivered in its Q4 earnings results big time. The online giant reported earnings of $6.47 per share vs analyst expectations of $4.03 ...
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iGaming fraud report
Chargebacks Credit Card & Online Fraud Cybersecurity

Scams plague online gaming industry, Super Bowl too

In the run-up to the Super Bowl LIV, iovation released its 2020 iGaming Report, providing an analysis of more than 4 billion online ...
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only 38% use gift cards within 30 days
E-commerce Loyalty Retail

62% haven’t spent holiday gift cards yet

It’s the end of January. Do you know where your gift cards are? An important question for both retailers and consumers. Surprisingly, only ...
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Google global shopping insights
E-commerce Retail

Google’s global shopping insights show omnichannel eye-openers

Google’s 2019 global shopping insights report shows that consumers are increasingly becoming omnichannel creatures of habit. The implication is that retailers and online ...
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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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