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Why Cryptocurrency Chargebacks Are Inevitable

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Why 2022 Will Be Defined by Cross-Border Ecommerce

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Italian Bank Bper Gets Offer From Nexi for Merchant Payment Arm

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New Ideas, New Revenues: Merging Online and Offline Payments to Unlock the World of Multi-Dimensional Commerce

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The Ecommerce Trends That SMEs Need to Note

Date: February 23, 2022

By Irfan Rasmally, industry expert and myPOS Group Chief Operations Officer As the world is entering its third year of COVID-19, nano and micro businesses are beginning to embrace digital tools. What in the last two years was viewed by them as means to survive, is now finally acknowledged as a way to thrive. Ecommerce...

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Why E-Commerce Needs a New Way to Assess Creditworthiness

Date: February 23, 2022

By Christian Mangold, CEO Fraugster Key Takeaways: Credit checks are designed to answer a simple question, “Can I trust this person to repay the amount they are borrowing?”. Traditional bureaus such as Equifax, Experian, Transunion, and major regional players like SCHUFA perform regular credit checks on customers to assess their total debt, repayment history, previous...

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Request to Pay: What Is It and How Close Is the Industry to Adoption?

Date: February 23, 2022

By Louise Shorthouse, Senior Payments Consultant, Icon Solutions The concept of Request to Pay is simple. By enabling a secure messaging channel between biller and payer, it allows the biller to initiate a transaction and the payer to choose when – and how much – they pay. This is unlocking new flexible ways for money...

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As the Sca Deadline Approaches, Fraud Prevention Is All the More Important

Date: February 23, 2022

By Ed Whitehead, Signifyd Managing Director, EMEA Risk professionals and retail leaders for months have been fixated on the new strong customer authentication (SCA) requirements that arrived with PSD2 — and rightfully so. The new payments regulation, which will be mandatory in the UK in March 2022, is a once-in-a-generation change with the potential to...

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Data and Edge – ‘Da-edge’, to Be a New Phenomenon in the Banking Industry

Date: February 23, 2022

By Nilesh Gupta, Head of CloudFirst & Edge Services, 3i Infotech The digital payment space across the world has witnessed a steady transformation since March 2020. The lockdown period in major countries witnessed significant limitation in spending among consumers with the physical currency and forced them to use digital wallets and online mode of payments....

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Nexi in Exclusive Talks to Buy BPER’s Retailers’ Payment Arm-Source

Date: February 22, 2022

MILAN (Reuters) -Italian payments group Nexi is in exclusive talks to buy the retailers’ payment business of BPER Banca, a person close to the matter said, confirming a report by Bloomberg News. A deal could be worth around 350 million euros ($396.73 million), the person said. In a conference call after the group’s fourth-quarter results earlier this...