Mercator Advisory Group

New payment strategies generally benefit from, and often need, the advice of its stakeholders as they enter a market growth...

A new consumer survey (conducted for the publication Cardbeat®) focusing on the retail banking and credit card account opening interests...

Apple NFC payments were widely expected to take a major step forward with the anticipated launch of the iPhone 5,...

First Data Corp. announced this week that the company has received a patent on technology that can activate all the...

As evidence that government intervention can spur innovation in payments, US Bank has announced their launch of Payment Navigator™ and...

Starting in August 2010, checking account customers had to “opt-in” for automatic overdraft protection on debit transactions because of abuses...

The release of the Federal Reserve’s monthly G19 reading on consumer credit removed any hope that revolving consumer credit (primarily...

Nearly a decade after the credit card market meltdown in 2002-2003, Korea’s financial regulator (FSS) is again concerned about rising...

Thinking out loud seems to be a primary strategy in the war of words between issuers and merchants these days....

Social media has evolved from a marketing channel into a platform for customer engagement, commerce, and payments innovation. Financial institutions...