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Industry Insights & Payment News
Where payments, compliance, and growth intersect. Explore insights on healthcare, telehealth, ecommerce, recurring revenue, and the infrastructure powering modern business.
How to Optimize Your Customer Return Policy
How to optimize your customer return policy to reduce chargebacks. Best practices for omnichannel returns, clear terms, and dispute prevention.
How the Wirecard Outage Makes the Case for Multi-Acquiring
How the Wirecard collapse makes the case for multi-acquiring. Why relying on a single processor puts your business at risk and how redundancy protects revenue.
Paxum Returning Funds Lost Due to Wirecard Collapse
Paxum is returning funds lost in the Wirecard collapse. What happened, which merchants were affected, and what the recovery process looks like.
Use Affiliate Marketing to Break Into Ecommerce
How to use affiliate marketing to break into ecommerce. Getting started with low overhead, choosing programs, and scaling toward your own product sales.
Will COVID-19 Kill Cash?
Will COVID-19 kill cash? How the pandemic accelerated digital payments adoption and what it means for the future of physical currency.
Mom-and-Pop Shops Get Stuck With Chargebacks
Why mom-and-pop shops bear the brunt of chargebacks. How small merchants are disproportionately affected by fraud disputes and what they can do about it.
Sometimes Chargeback Issues Lie with Issuing Banks
How issuing banks contribute to chargeback problems. Why some disputes originate from bank-side issues rather than merchant error or customer fraud.
Online Fraud is Increasing During COVID-19
How online fraud increased during COVID-19. Pandemic-driven trends in card-not-present fraud and what merchants can do to protect their businesses.
Mastercard’s White Paper on Biometric Security Explains Why We Need It
What Mastercard's biometric security white paper reveals about the future of payment authentication. Why biometrics are needed and how they reduce fraud.
How Digital Authentication can Reduce Fraud
How digital authentication reduces payment fraud. Biometric verification, multi-factor methods, and how to balance security with customer experience.