Ben Jackson

Bitcoin is dead.The much-hyped virtual currency has had its fundamental valueproposition of being an anonymous electronic currency called intoquestion by...

Mercator Advisory Group recently hosted a webinar in which senior prepaid analyst Ben Jackson separated fact from fiction regarding some...

In February, processing company TSYSannounced that it would buy prepaid program manager NetSpend forapproximately $1.4 billion in cash. The deal...

Editor's note:This isthe first in a series of Perspectives from Prepaid Senior AnalystBen Jackson testing different prepaid mobileapplications.Start-up company Gyft...

During the holiday season, more merchants hosted card malls, but the cards in those malls were simpler thanin years past....

If I had a nickel for every time I heard thata person will leave their wallet at home before they...

Over the next few weeks, Mercator AdvisoryGroup will test and report on a number of payments applicationscompanies have put out...

The payments industry, government agencies,and the media have all been intrigued by bitcoin because itpurports to be a digital currency...

Game maker Nintendo is releasing new prepaidcards in Japan that show how the cards themselves can become a wayto interact...

American Express and Walmart announced onTuesday that Bluebird accounts will be eligible for insurance fromthe Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and...