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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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 installment payments
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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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Sears, Delta Airlines payments data breached

Sears and Delta Airlines have both suffered a breach of their data payments through a systems hack of software provider [24]7.ai. [24]7.ai, which ...
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Will Amazon enter the voice payments business soon?

Word is out that Amazon is preparing to enter the payments business, and that’s got to be making PayPal, Venmo and Square nervous. ...
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Global e-commerce and retail news; Bancor cryptowallet

Our newsletter today has an extensive roundup of global e-commerce and retail news about Amazon, Newegg, Toys “R” Us, Saks Fifth Avenue and ...
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