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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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Refund Fraud Has a New Co-Pilot

It was expected that professional fraudsters would jump on GenAI and experiment with the ways it can help them commit

Shoshana Maraney / January 18, 2026

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Equifax Acquires Chargeback Management Tool Midigator

Equifax announced at the end of last month that it would acquire chargeback management tool Midigator for an undisclosed sum.

Ronen Shnidman / August 8, 2022

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Sift Acquires Chargeback.com, Terms Undisclosed

Sift announced that it was acquiring Chargeback.com this past week, the second recent buyout of a chargeback mitigation company. Earlier

Ronen Shnidman / May 30, 2021

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Mastercard to buy Ekata for $850M

Mastercard announced earlier this week that it would acquire the Seattle-based online identity verification company Ekata for $850 million subject

Ronen Shnidman / April 23, 2021

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Whitepages.com Spins Off Ekata Identity Solution

Whitepages Pro, a leading supplier in global digital identity verification data, today announced that has spun off its renamed business-to-business

Ronen Shnidman / June 13, 2019

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Manual Review for CNP Transactions in Europe

Manual review is the paradox in card-not-present (CNP) fraud prevention today. Many in the market are trumpeting the decreased need

Ronen Shnidman / March 20, 2019

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Machine Identity Replacing PII in Securing Transactions

Several new and intriguing ways of authenticating identity were on display at the CyberTech TLV conference in Israel at the

Ronen Shnidman / February 19, 2019

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‘Online Fraudcast’ Podcast Explores Fraud Topics

Fraud prevention consultant Karisse Hendrick joined with about-fraud.com contributor and ex-con Brett Johnson to launch this summer “The Online Fraudcast”

Ronen Shnidman / August 27, 2018

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Why Fraud Teams Should Care More About Authorizations Than Disputes

Global Payments Acquires ChargebackHelp to Provide Greater Value-Added Services

Refund Fraud Has a New Co-Pilot

Equifax Acquires Chargeback Management Tool Midigator

Sift Acquires Chargeback.com, Terms Undisclosed

Mastercard to buy Ekata for $850M

Whitepages.com Spins Off Ekata Identity Solution

Manual Review for CNP Transactions in Europe

Machine Identity Replacing PII in Securing Transactions

‘Online Fraudcast’ Podcast Explores Fraud Topics

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