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14
May

Digital Identity Verification Market to Exceed $29B by 2030

Ronen Shnidman / May 14, 2026
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Digital identity verification as a market is expected to exceed $29 billion by 2030, growing 55% from $19 billion in 2026, according to a study by global tech strategy consultancy Juniper Research. A whitepaper released last week by Juniper Research dubbed digital identity verification as one of the fastest-evolving areas of fraud prevention. The report […]

14
May

Orca Fraud: Fighting Fraud Differently in Emerging Markets

Ronen Shnidman / May 14, 2026
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Thalia Pillay is the CEO and co-founder of Orca Fraud, an anti-fraud startup from South Africa that raised a $2.35 million seed round in March this year and has been making some waves. Before entering the world of payments and fraud prevention, Thalia studied robotics engineering at the University of Cape Town, where she met […]

11
May

DME Fraud: The Undead Zombie of Healthcare Fraud

Randall Casciello / May 11, 2026
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Durable Medical Equipment (DME) consists of things like knee braces, back braces, glucose monitors, wheelchairs, and any other medical equipment prescribed for a patient. For providers, prescribing and distributing DME is not a one-time transaction, they are healthpayer billing streams. Unlike other healthcare services provided, such as fee-for-service, DME offers providers high reimbursement rates, repeatable […]

08
May

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Google Play Shifts App Chargebacks Burden to Developers

Ronen Shnidman / May 8, 2026
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Google Play is changing how it handles chargebacks, switching to a model of splitting the costs with developers instead of absorbing the fees entirely. The change was first reported by technology news site Piunika Web, based upon an official support page for the app store announcing the update. De facto, developers’ responsibility for app chargebacks […]

06
May

Update: Travel Chargebacks Surge, As Spirit Airlines Collapses

Ronen Shnidman / May 6, 2026
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Spirit Airlines’ collapse last weekend led to approximately 1,000% week-over-week increase in disputes on transactions connected to the airline in the first 72 hours following its end of operations, according to issuer chargeback management solution provider Quavo. Quavo Predicts 60-90 Day Chargeback Surge Quavo claimed “unmatched” visibility into the chargeback impact of Spirit Airlines’ demise […]

05
May

Tackling Human Trafficking: Lessons from Case Studies

Urriolagoitia Miner / May 5, 2026
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Human trafficking is the act of taking a person across a border against their will, usually to exploit them for labor. The term applies both to when people are trafficked from city to city inside a country and when they are brought across international borders. Human smuggling, on the other hand, is voluntary on the […]

24
Apr

Ballerine Launches New Scam & Fraud Detection API

Ronen Shnidman / April 24, 2026
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Ballerine, a merchant risk and compliance platform for acquirers and payment service providers (PSPs), introduced to market its new agentic detection solution, the Scam & Fraud Detection API, that identifies high-risk merchants and fraud networks in less than 60 seconds before transactions occur. Historically, it has usually taken acquirers anywhere from days to weeks to […]

Interview with Intelligence Expert Dmitry Ivanov

16
Apr

3 Major Pitfalls of Intelligence Work

Ronen Shnidman / April 16, 2026
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Dmitry Ivanov is the founder and Head of Intelligence at SA West Global Intelligence, a private competitive intelligence firm based in Riga, Latvia and that operates in Europe, Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa. He has over two decades experience in the business intelligence industry. Dmitry sat down in February with Fraudbeat to discuss open-source […]

14
Apr

How Data Science Is Rewriting Chargeback Strategy

Maya Fudim / April 14, 2026
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A few years ago, improving chargeback performance meant adding more reviews and more people to the team and having a clear chargeback strategy was unheard of. Today, technology and modern solutions make chargeback management easier and importantly, more effective. Merchants reduce manual effort while improving dispute outcomes at the same time. The complexity hasn’t disappeared, […]

13
Apr

VAMP: Redefining What ‘Good’ Means for Payments Operations

Amber McGirr / April 13, 2026
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If you run an e-commerce business, you’ve likely heard of Visa’s Acquirer Monitoring Program, known as VAMP. Most explanations talk about how VAMP works. Fraud (TC40) and disputes (TC15) are now combined into one ratio. The rules are stricter, and acquirers must ensure everyone follows them. All of this is accurate, but the main point […]

Digital Identity Verification Market to Exceed $29B by 2030

Orca Fraud: Fighting Fraud Differently in Emerging Markets

DME Fraud: The Undead Zombie of Healthcare Fraud

Google Play Shifts App Chargebacks Burden to Developers

Update: Travel Chargebacks Surge, As Spirit Airlines Collapses

Tackling Human Trafficking: Lessons from Case Studies

Ballerine Launches New Scam & Fraud Detection API

3 Major Pitfalls of Intelligence Work

How Data Science Is Rewriting Chargeback Strategy

VAMP: Redefining What ‘Good’ Means for Payments Operations

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