An editorial posted this week onPaymentsSource looks at the Federal Trade Commission's recentactions against independent sales organizations IRN Payment Systemsand...

Though several pundits in the media have beenquick to conclude that Visa is entering the merchant acquiringbusiness (again-remember CyberSource?), it...

There are certainly a lot of cost concerns onboth the issuing side of the payment card space as well as...

Another year has passed and retailers flushwith holiday-shopping revenue converged on New York City this pastweek for the National Retail...

I've had multiple discussions over the courseof the last few weeks that revolve around the market's propensityto adopt one or...

It's no secret that merchant aggregators,firms that act as merchants-of-record for sub-merchants, haveexisted in the payments industry for a long...

Since Heartland Payment Systems popularizedthe concept after the breach of its servers was disclosed in late2008, the merchant acquiring industry's...

It's been about three weeks since merchantacquiring processor and independent sales organization GlobalPayments Inc. revealed it suffered a security breach....

Over the last two weeks, I've discussedtrends affecting the merchant acquiring space that will serve asthe core topics, among others,...

Last week, I discussed the first of threethemes that Mercator's merchant acquiring research will focus onover the course of the...