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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PayPal acquisition of iZettle shakes up payments world

PayPal just moved the meter in the payments world with its acquisition of mobile payments provider iZettle for $2.2 billion in an all ...
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Payments research: 77% of merchants say real-time payments to replace cards

A new ACI Worldwide/Ovum payments research survey says 77% of merchants expect real-time payments to replace card payments in the near future. The report ...
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Payments news roundup: Facebook Crypto, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, IATA, more

Our Friday newsletter has an in-depth profile of Facebook’s new cryptocurrency and blockchain technology plans as well as our usual extensive Friday payments ...
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Weekly global payments news roundup

It was a busy week in payments news from around the world. Every Friday, we include a roundup of the latest payments news, ...
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Mastercard biometric cards, Shopify & Microsoft Outlook payments

Our newsletter looks first at MasterCard biometric cards that allow cardholders to verify their fingerprint at home. Next, we examine Shopify’s brand-new merchant ...
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Mastercard points the finger to biometric cards

Mastercard unveiled a new feature for its biometric payments cards that allows cardholders to register their fingerprints at home. Imagine not having to ...
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Shopify tunes up merchant payments tools

Shopify launched a basket of new merchant payment features at its annual Unite conference in Toronto, Canada. Chief among the new features were ...
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Pay bills in Microsoft Outlook soon

Microsoft said soon you'll be able to pay bills and invoices entirely within your Microsoft Outlook email program. ...
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Payments news: Visa Checkout, Adyen, PPRO Group, more

Today’s PaymentsNEXT newsletter has a wealth of payments industry news you can use.  We look at the future of Visa Checkout and single ...
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Global e-commerce & payments news roundup

It’s the end of the week and time for an e-commerce and payments news roundup from around the globe. What a busy week ...
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