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German Prosecutors File Charges in $345M ‘Operation Chargeback’

German prosecutors filed charges last week in a EUR 300 million ($345 million) payments fraud case that affected 4.3 million

Ronen Shnidman / July 11, 2026

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Share of employers reporting employee-customer collusion in friendly fraud cases.

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¼ of Merchants Report Friendly Fraud Is Sometimes an Inside Job

Nearly a quarter of merchants (23%) report issues with employees encouraging customers to file friendly fraud chargebacks, according to a

Ronen Shnidman / June 30, 2026

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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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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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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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Global Payments and Chargeback Help merger

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Global Payments Acquires ChargebackHelp to Provide Greater Value-Added Services

The payment processor and Fortune 500 company Global Payments publicly announced its merger with chargeback management solution ChargebackHelp earlier this

Ronen Shnidman / January 23, 2026

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German Prosecutors File Charges in $345M ‘Operation Chargeback’

¼ of Merchants Report Friendly Fraud Is Sometimes an Inside Job

Dispute Investigator Life: Issuer Judgement Calls vs. Network Rules

Airline Chargebacks Likely to Remain Elevated This Summer Travel Season

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

Why Fraud Teams Should Care More About Authorizations Than Disputes

Global Payments Acquires ChargebackHelp to Provide Greater Value-Added Services

German Prosecutors File Charges in $345M.

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