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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Are retailers payments-ready?
Retail

Three Key Questions To Consider for Payment Strategies in 2026 

By: Michael Jaszczyk, CEO of GK Americas The holidays are the most anticipated shopping season for both consumers and retailers. The second that coffee ...
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AI Payments Trends

Securing Payment Primacy in the Invisible Checkout Era

By Shawn Conahan, Chief Revenue Officer, Wildfire Systems With agentic shopping, the e-commerce shopping cart as we know it will soon disappear, along ...
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US spending drops
Buy Now Pay Later Mobile Payments

Americans Reduce Spending While Payments Behaviors Expand

By Lilah Raynor, CEO & Founder, Logica Research Americans are navigating an uneven financial landscape. Inflation, tariffs, and economic uncertainty are putting pressure ...
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Cybersecurity Fraud

Signs Your Organization Needs an Automated OFAC Checking Solution

Phil Binkow, CEO of Financial Operations Networks (FONS) It’s Monday morning, and your finance team is buried under a mountain of supplier payments that ...
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US consumer savings sinking
Banking Payments Research

US consumers fighting for financial security and failing

In 2025, US consumers are fighting a losing battle for financial security. Instead of building buffers, growing debt is dragging them down. Rising ...
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Fast Payments Mobile Payments

Are Physical Credit Cards Doomed?

By John Toman, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, Pivot Payables A time may soon come when future generations won’t recognize physical credit cards ...
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AI Fraud Payments Trends

AI Payments Are Coming Fast – But So Is Agentic Fraud

By Douglas Hall, Founder & CEO, EQUE The payments industry is entering a new chapter. AI-driven commerce – where autonomous AI agents shop ...
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Cybersecurity Fraud

Attacking ERP Systems: The Next Frontier in B2B Payment Fraud

By Shai Gabay, Co-founder and CEO, Trustmi Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are the bedrock for a business’s operations. They oversee finance, procurement, ...
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Fast Payments Payments Trends

How SMEs Can Shift Power in the Next Era of Transactions

By Melinda Roylett, Managing Director, Lloyds Merchant Services The way we pay has changed more in the past five years than in the ...
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Faster payments mean higher retention
Banking Fast Payments

Payments that lag, lose corporate customers

By Jessica Cheney, VP of Strategic Solutions, Bottomline In today’s real-time economy, anything less than instant needs to be changed. In fact, according ...
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