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Fraud Risks in Cross-Border Payments and Why International Transactions Are Targeted
In order for businesses to access worldwide markets and serve a diverse customer base, cross-border payments have emerged as an essential part of global commerce. But the increase in international trade has also made businesses more susceptible to fraud. Due to...
Combatting Fraud & Chargebacks in Online Casinos & Sports Betting
In recent years, the online gambling sector, which includes sports betting sites and online casinos, has grown significantly. However, this growth also brings with it a more difficult problem... chargebacks and fraud. Online Gambling is especially...
Subscription & Recurring Payments – Managing Chargebacks & Disputes at Scale
With industries like SaaS, streaming services, e-learning platforms and digital memberships mainly dependent on recurring payments, the emergence of subscription-based businesses has completely changed the digital economy. However, customers can dispute...
Preventing Chargebacks in Travel and Hospitality: A Guide for Payment Professionals
Chargebacks have become an ongoing concern for businesses in the travel and hospitality industries. This is primarily due to the high value of bookings, varying service quality, and typically strict cancellation rules. With the increase in digital bookings...
How Smart Payment Routing Enhances Transaction Success & Fraud Prevention
In an increasingly complex payments ecosystem, businesses must optimize transaction approvals while minimizing fraud risks and processing costs. By strategically guiding transactions through the most effective payment method, smart payment routing increases fraud...
The Rise of Account-to-Account (A2A) Payments
Account-to-account (A2A) payments are changing the payments industry by providing businesses and consumers with a direct, affordable, and secure alternative for conventional card-based transactions. A2A payments are a strong option for merchants, payment facilitators,...
Mastering Chargeback Representments: Crafting Responses That Win Dispute Cases
In today's complex payments ecosystem, navigating the chargeback response and representment process is a crucial task for service providers, payment facilitators, and merchants. Although chargeback representation provides a chance to recoup money lost due to disputes,...
Optimising Billing Descriptors to Minimise Chargebacks
Clarity is crucial in the payments ecosystem, and billing descriptors are essential for making sure that customers can quickly identify transactions. Even though it might seem like a small detail, a billing descriptor that is inconsistent or ambiguous can...
Why Merchants and Payment Service Providers Should Consider Using Multiple Acquirers
In the rapidly changing environment of digital commerce, chargebacks and fraud have grown to be major problems for both merchants and Payment Service Providers (PSPs). These problems present operational and reputational difficulties in addition to financial risks as...
Understanding First-Party Fraud: Causes, Costs, and Prevention Strategies
First-party misuse/fraud, commonly known as "friendly fraud", has grown to be a serious problem in the e-commerce and payments industries. In contrast to traditional fraud, this kind of misuse typically involves real customers disputing genuine transactions,...
Mastering Chargeback Automation with Chargeback Alerts and Dispute Intelligence
Chargebacks are now a major problem for both merchants and payment stakeholders who operate in the ever evolving landscape of digital commerce. The likelihood of disputed payments, which frequently results in costly chargebacks, rising rapidly in line with the...
How will the FTC’s New Click to Cancel Laws affect your Business?
Businesses in the e-commerce, streaming, and SaaS sectors all rely significantly on recurring payments in today's subscription-driven economy. However, increased scrutiny comes along with this comfort. The "Click-to-Cancel" rule, which was recently introduced by the...