Mercator Advisory Group

The upward march of post-CARD Act credit card APRs is catching more headlines, but in a sense is nothing new....

Prepaid card solution vendor NxSystems announced today a web-based application that supports merchant issuance of closed- and open-loop prepaid cards...

In a change that shows the pitfalls of doing business internationally, PayPal recently set a $500 limit on transfers to...

As Mercator expects, it looks more and more like 2011 will be the year of the final arrival of NFC...

Yodlee, a US-based company well known for its online banking solutions, appears to be making progress entering the European market....

This story by the Washington Post presents evidence that retailers are increasingly introducing financial services products that compete with banks:...

The headline hyperbole over Square is getting boring, repetitive, and inaccurate. The headline “A Twitter Guy Takes on Big Banks”...

Over the past two recession-wracked years, mergers and acquisition have, for the most part, been shot gun weddings where the...

Open-loop payment card acceptance hasn’t exactly been on the top of transit operator lists. Concerns over speed and cost of...

NFC payments are coming to the UK on the wings of what is, to American eyes, a unicorn. A mobile...