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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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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Visa Checkout headed for the parking lot?

Visa is not dropping Visa Checkout yet, but senior execs seem to be pointing it to the exit judging by recent comments in ...
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Retailers lose $1.1 billion by not offering preferred payment choices

A new report from global payments provider Adyen highlights shifting consumer payments preferences and the potential loss of more than $1.1 billion by ...
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E-commerce fraud jumps 30%; Amazon 2017 annual report highlights

Our newsletter today covers an extensive Experian report on US online shopping fraud which jumped 30% in 2017. Learn more about the best ...
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Amazon 2017 highlights: It was a very good year!

In a letter to shareholders, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos highlighted a number of important milestones for the company. Most important for Amazon and ...
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