July 30, 2026
Issuer-side AI solutions

Episode Six and Decisionly Partner to Modernize Issuer-Side Dispute Management

Episode Six, a global technology provider of enterprise-grade card issuing, and Decisionly, an AI-powered dispute automation platform, announced last week a strategic partnership to bring an issuer-side solution to market covering card infrastructure and payment dispute management.  The Underserved Issuer-Side of the Market  “Disputes have come up consistently in conversations with our clients for some […]

Operation Chargeback

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 credit cardholders from 193 countries between 2016 and 2021. The case, dubbed “Operation Chargeback,” provides a great window into the transnational, crime-for-hire nature of organized crime networks involved in payments fraud today. An international investigation […]

Dispute Rate vs. Authorization Rate

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 if disputes are your primary performance lens, you are optimizing against a lagging signal. Authorization is what sets the trajectory for  a merchant’s processing portfolio. By the time a chargeback arrives, the authorization decision is […]