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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Experian: 2017 Online Shopping Fraud Up 30%

Russian hackers and trolls may have received all the media coverage in 2017 but it was Chinese and Venezuelan hackers who carried out ...
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Winning millennial bank customers; 8 retail innovators to watch

Our newsletter today features a new research report from CSI & The Center for Generational Kinetics on millennial banking habits and preferences and ...
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Research: How banks can win millennial customers

Millennials are entering the wealth-accumulation phase of their lives and are driving all major banking trends. A new CSI and The Center for ...
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Eight surprising retail brands and why they’re growing

US retail sales rose 0.6 percent in March 2018 according to the US Census Bureau. Not great, but not negative. More interesting and ...
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Payments news: PayPal chases unbanked; banks drop mobile; crypto credit

Today, we’re looking at PayPal’s campaign to bring in new customers from the nine million “unbanked” US residents who either don’t use a ...
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Are banks disconnecting from mobile banking customers?

A new report from Javelin Strategy & Research suggests banks may be failing to pivot fast enough to keep up with the changing ...
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PayPal wants unbanked customers
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No bank? PayPal wants you

Got no bank? You may be just the customer PayPal is looking for. Of course, more than 227 million worldwide customers know and ...
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Credit card signatures gone; P2P cryptocurrency payments here

We’ve got a couple of quick stories for you today, starting with the demise of signatures on credit cards by the major credit ...
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Bye bye credit card signatures

When was the last time you used a pay phone? I can’t remember either. In the same way, by the end of this ...
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Yandex Money launches e-commerce installment payments

Yandex.Money launched 'Pay in Parts' – a new service for online buyers in Russia and around the world. ...
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