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Where payments, compliance, and growth intersect. Explore insights on healthcare, telehealth, ecommerce, recurring revenue, and the infrastructure powering modern business.
Credit Card Company Developing “Gait Technology” to Verify Identities
How gait technology could verify identities for credit card transactions. A look at biometric walking pattern recognition and its potential in payment security.
How To Know If You’re Being Pillaged By a Payment Gateway
How to tell if your payment gateway is overcharging you. Hidden fees, unnecessary surcharges, and red flags that signal you are paying too much for processing.
How Merchants Can Defend Against Coronavirus Fraud
How merchants can defend against coronavirus-related fraud. Common pandemic scams targeting card payments and practical steps to protect your business.
How Travel Merchants Can Hold the Line Against Chargebacks
How travel merchants can manage chargebacks during travel bans and cancellations. Dispute prevention strategies for a pandemic-disrupted industry.
VISA Updates Requirements for Subscription Merchants
Visa updated its requirements for subscription merchants offering free trials and promotional discounts. New rules designed to reduce chargebacks and complaints.
Visa and Mastercard Updated Policies Postponed
Visa and Mastercard postponed dispute and fraud monitoring policy changes due to COVID-19. What was delayed, the new timelines, and what merchants should prepare.
Visa Raises Interchange Rate, Pressures New Businesses
How Visa's interchange rate increase affects new businesses. Which fee categories changed, who pays more, and how merchants can manage the impact.
Everything Merchants Need to Know About Prepaid Cards
Everything merchants need to know about accepting prepaid cards. How prepaid credit, debit, and gift cards work and what it means for your processing.
Chargebacks 101: How to Prevent, Avoid, and Dispute Them
Chargebacks 101 for merchants. How chargebacks happen, prevention strategies, dispute timelines, and how to win representment when you have strong evidence.
Latest Status on MORE Act to Federally Decriminalize Marijuana
The latest status on the MORE Act to federally decriminalize marijuana. What the bill means for cannabis businesses, banking access, and payment processing.