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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Bitglass analyzed 103 bank data breaches
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Bitglass: Financial institution data breaches tripled in two years

When cloud security provider Bitglass examined the state of financial services cybersecurity in 2018, it was shocked to see that data breaches of ...
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Online sales tax in 13,000+ jurisdictions now a reality for online sellers

The US Supreme Court decided on June 21, 2018, that states and local governments could require online retailers to collect online sales tax ...
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Payments NEXT newsletter
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Payments NEXT newsletter: The week’s latest global payments news

Lots of timely global Payments NEXT news for your weekend reading starting with the launch of Amazon 4-Star store in Soho, fraudsters using ...
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Global payments news roundup: Amazon, Bon-Ton, PCI, AI, future of malls

Here’s what we’ve been reading in the global payments news this week. There’s everything from Amazon’s new 4-Star concept store to the mall ...
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Look-alike domains pose growing threat to online sellers, shoppers

With the fast growth of online shopping, a new research report from Venafi shows hackers are also increasing their efforts to steal confidential ...
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Is Amazon 4-Star reinventing the department store?

If you’re a certain age, you might remember the grand FW Woolworth’s department store. Founded in 1878, the successful chain pioneered the five-and-dime ...
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Can Visa get contactless payments to stick this time around?

It’s not like Visa and MasterCard haven’t tried to get US consumers to embrace contactless cards. But according to a recent infographic released ...
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Biometric payments cards butting heads with real-world customer usage

The payments industry loves the promise of new technology whether it’s mobile payments, fingerprints, facial recognition or other biometric payments. But the challenge ...
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Flipkart launches cardless credit in India
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Walmart-owned Flipkart launches instant credit for Indian consumers

India’s leading online shopping site Flipkart, now 77% owned by Walmart, launched a cashless credit program that will give shoppers access to an ...
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Payments NEXT newsletter: holiday sales, cybersecurity, regtech compliance

Here’s the best global payments news that crossed our desk this week, all curated and quickly accessed for your weekend reading enjoyment via ...
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