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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Feb 22 Global payments news roundup

Spring still seems far away in many parts of the country, so let’s warm up with the best of this week’s global payments ...
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Consumers want more credit card protection

Ten years after President Barack Obama signed the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 (Credit CARD Act), research by CompareCards.com ...
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Biometrics Drive the Future of Payments

by Ned Hayes, General Manager, SureID It’s Monday, and you need a little brain fuel in the form of caffeine intake. When you ...
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Feb 15 Global payments news roundup

What a busy week in payments news around the globe! Amazon has canceled plans for a New York HQ. US retailers lost $300 ...
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FTC says romance is costliest financial scam

It’s Valentine’s Day and romance may be in the air but so are financial scams, according to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). ...
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70% of consumers will share data with benefits

Tightly woven into e-commerce and payments are the critical issues of trust and privacy for consumers. Experian’s Global Identity and Fraud Report found ...
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Markdowns cost US retailers $300 billion in lost sales in 2018

A study by Coresight Research and Celect estimates non-grocery retailers lost more than 12% of annual sales or more than $300 billion due ...
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Feb 8 Global payments news roundup

In this week’s payments news, we’ve got an NRF prediction for 2019 retail sales growth of 4.4%. The Anti-Phishing Working Group says 38% ...
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Will the cashless movement lose momentum?

Advocates of the move towards cashless payments are excited about its possibilities but there’s push back from critics who say it disenfranchises people ...
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New India e-commerce rules upend industry

New Feb 1 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) regulations on e-commerce have the online selling business in turmoil in India. The new government regulations ...
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