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’s Q4 financial results impressive

If you were a veteran of racetrack betting, you’d be doing the happy dance with Amazon’s Q4 financial trifecta win. Why a trifecta? ...
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News Roundup: E-commerce fraud, China mobile payments, Starbucks no-cash payments

Today’s newsletter looks at a big jump in 2017 holiday e-commerce fraud, the drivers behind China’s mobile payments growth at home and abroad, ...
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ACI: Holiday e-commerce fraud attempts jumped 22%

A new ACI Worldwide research report showed 2017 holiday e-commerce fraud jumped 22%, while transactions increased 19%. ...
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What’s driving China’s mobile payments global growth?

Alipay and Tencent's WeChat Pay are leveraging profits and payments expertise from China into the global market, starting in SE Asia. ...
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Starbucks tests coffee with no-cash payments

Starbucks is testing a non-cash-only payments policy at a busy downtown Seattle coffee location. ...
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Research: How online buyer paths lead to product sales

The Center for the Digital Future paints a valuable profile of the online consumer and the paths to purchase online. ...
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Holiday sales roundup, Amazon unveiled, Banks battle Fintechs

We’ve got a wide-ranging newsletter to start the year. First up, a look at the 2017 retail and e-commerce holiday sales season where ...
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Amazon ruled 2017 US e-commerce: 27 competitive facts to know

Amazon, utterly dominated e-commerce in the US in 2017. We’ve got 20 facts from a Feedvisor research study of Amazon shoppers that every online ...
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2017 holiday retail roundup: Winners and losers

Final 2017 holiday e-commerce sales results are in with numerous winners mixed in with some prominent losers.  Let’s start with the good news. ...
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Banks, Fintech Must Meet in the Middle on Data Sharing

The battle of the moment in the financial services industry is over access to and control of consumer financial data, whether login details ...
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