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 ruled Thanksgiving Day with 45% of online sales; Walmart growing

Thanksgiving e-commerce sales are still overwhelmingly dominated by Amazon but Walmart is becoming more competitive online. ...
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Cyber Monday highlights: Record sales, mobile mattered, Amazon ruled

Cyber Monday online sales hit a record $6.6 billion, Amazon dominated 55% of sales on Black Friday and shoppers still shopped in stores. ...
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Market trends: Altcoins up strongly and 23% of bitcoins missing in action

Our newsletter today looks at surprising bitcoin research from Chainalysis and our own analysis of the impressive recent surge in top altcoins’ market ...
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14 Altcoins rising: A fresh look at recent market values

In busy market trading, bitcoin surpassed $9,600 but the real story may be the surprising jump in the top 14 altcoin values. ...
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Chainalysis research shows up to 23% of bitcoin are MIA

A new report from research firm Chainalysis says up to 23% of bitcoin may be missing or out of circulation ...
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Payments news: Black Friday sales analysis, China mobile, Tencent growth

Today’s newsletter has Black Friday sales analysis, an in-depth report on China mobile and a profile of Tencent, the largest company you’ve probably ...
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Black Friday sales analysis: Online spending up, foot traffic down

US Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday online sales were up 17.9%, reaching $7.09 billion while in-store traffic declined 1%. ...
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Which Chinese tech company is now bigger than Facebook?

What's the biggest half trillion dollar company you never heard of? Learn about Tencent and how it's growing into a global powerhouse. ...
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Mobile China: 520 million wallets & payments worth more than $5.9 trillion

If there was ever any doubt about the direction of the payments industry, one need only look to China for the future. Alibaba’s ...
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Where’s bitcoin going? Two very different views ahead

As bitcoin crosses $8,000 this week, two passionate views are on full display. The bitcoin boosters and bulls are saying watch out for ...
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