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Dispute Investigator Life: Issuer Judgement Calls vs. Network Rules

Winning the chargeback that no one believed was possible is the biggest success a dispute investigator can achieve. Knowing chargeback rules

Haykanush Shahbazyan / June 12, 2026

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Airline Chargebacks Likely to Remain Elevated This Summer Travel Season

The 2026 summer time vacation season opened with a bang with the collapse of Spirit Airlines on May 2, leaving

Ronen Shnidman / June 5, 2026

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Digital Identity Verification Market to Exceed $29B by 2030

Digital identity verification as a market is expected to exceed $29 billion by 2030, growing 55% from $19 billion in

Ronen Shnidman / May 14, 2026

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Google Play Shifts App Chargebacks Burden to Developers

Google Play is changing how it handles chargebacks, switching to a model of splitting the costs with developers instead of

Ronen Shnidman / May 8, 2026

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Update: Travel Chargebacks Surge, As Spirit Airlines Collapses

Spirit Airlines’ collapse last weekend led to approximately 1,000% week-over-week increase in disputes on transactions connected to the airline in

Ronen Shnidman / May 6, 2026

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Ballerine Launches New Scam & Fraud Detection API

Ballerine, a merchant risk and compliance platform for acquirers and payment service providers (PSPs), introduced to market its new agentic

Ronen Shnidman / April 24, 2026

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VAMP: Redefining What ‘Good’ Means for Payments Operations

If you run an e-commerce business, you’ve likely heard of Visa’s Acquirer Monitoring Program, known as VAMP. Most explanations talk

Amber McGirr / April 13, 2026

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PRC Extradites Huione Group Gangster Tied to Pig Butchering Scams

Li Xiong, past chairman of the Huione Group, was extradited from Cambodia to China last week, in another blow towards

Ronen Shnidman / April 3, 2026

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Interpol Estimates Global Fraud Economy at $442 Billion

Fraud has now cemented itself as one of the top five global crime threats, alongside drug trafficking and money laundering,

Ronen Shnidman / March 19, 2026

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Why Fraud Teams Should Care More About Authorizations Than Disputes

Fraud teams obsess over disputes. Network monitoring thresholds. Chargeback win rates. Prevention alert integrations. Ratio management. All are important. But

Amber McGirr / March 16, 2026

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Dispute Investigator Life: Issuer Judgement Calls vs. Network Rules

Airline Chargebacks Likely to Remain Elevated This Summer Travel Season

Digital Identity Verification Market to Exceed $29B by 2030

Google Play Shifts App Chargebacks Burden to Developers

Update: Travel Chargebacks Surge, As Spirit Airlines Collapses

Ballerine Launches New Scam & Fraud Detection API

VAMP: Redefining What ‘Good’ Means for Payments Operations

PRC Extradites Huione Group Gangster Tied to Pig Butchering Scams

Interpol Estimates Global Fraud Economy at $442 Billion

Why Fraud Teams Should Care More About Authorizations Than Disputes

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