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 Pay enters Japan market
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Amazon Pay says Kon’nichiwa to Japanese cashless payments market

In Japan, 80% of consumers pay for transactions with cash. That’s why Amazon Japan’s decision to introduce Amazon Pay in partnership with startup ...
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e-commerce false positives challenge
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Fighting the negative sales impact of CNP false positives

A new report from Kount and The Fraud Practice examines card-not-present (CNP) false positives which are poorly understood and frequently mismanaged aspects of ...
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biometrics booming
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Passwords passé, “something I am” biometrics ID coming soon

A new report from Juniper Research says password-based solutions are increasingly impractical, and service providers have begun testing alternative second factors; ‘something I ...
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Payments news roundup: Google, Cafe Shiru, Cashier-less, fake products, EMV, mobile

Welcome to the weekly edition of Payments NEXT news. We go in-depth to look at cashier-less checkout trends, cross-border e-commerce success tips, Amazon ...
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Global payments news Aug 31
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What’s trending in global payments news this week?

Lots of news, innovations and new developments in payments news this week. Here’s a collection of what we’re reading and what you need ...
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cashier-less checkouts
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Cashier-less checkout tests grow, barriers remain

With the opening of its second store in Seattle, Amazon Go is in the vanguard of the cashier-less checkout movement. Though checkout automation ...
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cross-border payments tips
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Cross-border commerce success is simple if done right

Statista reports the number of global online shoppers between 2014 and 2018 jumped by 36%, growing from 1.32 billion to 1.79 billion people. ...
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Gartner: Amazon has a fake products problem

According to Gartner L2’s Amazon Intelligence: Third-Party Distribution Strategies Playbook report, Amazon has a substantial counterfeit products problem. Gartner estimates 33% of third-party vendor ...
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Google Pay now offers Indian consumers loans
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Google Pay offers Indian consumers loans within its mobile app

Google and four Indian banks will offer Indian consumers instant loans in the ultracompetitive $1 trillion Indian digital financial market. According to a ...
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Payments NEXT newsletter: Global payments news, trends, innovation

Our weekly payments industry news this week features an update on synthetic identity fraud, record Q2 2018 target financials, e-commerce membership sales growth, ...
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