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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July 5 Global payments news roundup

Happy July 5 to our US readers and welcome to this week’s global payments news roundup. We start with a look at the ...
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CITCON growing Chinese payments market in the EU

Chinese travelers are currently the largest spenders and the fastest-growing traveler segment in Europe. This presents EU businesses with an opportunity for growth ...
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June 28 Global payments news roundup

This week’s global payments news roundup starts with Amazon’s launch of a new delivery option called Counter and partnering initially with 100 Rite ...
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Amazon further disrupts the delivery world

The trunk of your car, your car garage, employee-owned delivery vehicles, driverless vehicle and robot deliveries, standalone lockers, its own Prime Air fleet, ...
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Kount AI raises payments fraud protection potential

Payments fraud is growing at 14% year over year, faster than overall retail sales, and growth in mobile fraud is also accelerating. According ...
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Mastercard enhances small business digital payments & security

With the launch of its MasterCard Digital Wellness program, the payments giant is making some smart moves to enhance digital payments and security ...
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Shopping list of US retail store closures grows

E-commerce, global competition, and changing shopper tastes and demographics have caused dramatic disruption in the US retail marketplace. Coresight Research tracked 5,524 US ...
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June 21 Global payments news roundup

Welcome to this week’s global payments news roundup which leads off with an interview with Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan who talks ...
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Bank of America CEO wants a cashless society

At Fortune’s Brainstorm Finance conference in Montauk, NY yesterday, Bank of America (BoA) CEO Brian Moynihan said his bank is ready for a ...
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Walmart drone delivery is up in the air

When it comes to delivering products by drone, Walmart and Amazon are going head-to-head in what many believe is the future of fast ...
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