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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Facebook launches Libra cryptocurrency
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What’s Facebook Libra cryptocurrency mean for payments?

Facebook unveiled its plan for a new global digital currency called Libra and a financial system to change how money moves globally. It ...
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P2P security
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7 million Venmo user transactions scraped

Minnesota State University infosecurity grad student Dan Salmon has a cybersecurity warning for seven million users of the popular P2P app Venmo. He ...
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June 14 global payments news roundup
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June 14 Global payments news roundup

No fake tariff deals or fake news here, just the best global payments news from this week for your information. Visa B2B Connect ...
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Internet Trends 2019 by Mary Meeker
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Mary Meeker Report: Internet Trends 2019

Bond Capital founder, VC investor, and technology analyst Mary Meeker is well-regarded for her annual internet trends reports. We’ll ignore whether a 333-slide ...
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Ceridian Pay Experience Report
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It’s payday: Do you know what your employees are thinking?

Here at Payments NEXT, we’re usually focused on how consumers and employees spend their money. For a change of pace, we’re going to ...
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Visa B2B Connect
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Visa B2B Connect launches faster FI cross-border payments

Let’s face it. Cross-border B2B payments are still at the teething stage. Trillions of dollars move through large decentralized financial networks daily, but ...
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Amazon and Synchrony
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Amazon Credit Builder targets credit-challenged consumers

According to FICO, over 25% of US consumers have a “poor” credit rating thanks to overspending, over lending, and inadequate regulation. That’s more ...
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June 7 global payments news
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June 7 Global payments news roundup

We’ve got a great roundup of stories this week on payments, fintech, retail, and e-commerce. POS consumer loans are growing fast and estimated ...
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FTD bankruptcy
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FTD bankruptcy: Send flowers?

It’s never a happy day when a 109-year-old retailer files for bankruptcy. That’s certainly the case with FTD as it files for Chapter ...
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global POS loans market equals $6 trillion
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Point-of-sale finance competition growing fast

The checkout line is getting crowded with point-of-sale (POS) finance competitors each looking for a slice of the consumer lending market with the ...
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