Mercator Advisory Group

First Data’s SpendTrend information for January provides yet more suggestive evidence that consumers are more willing to use their credit...

You have to love the gorgeous presentation that well-crafted iPad apps can deliver. The elegance of the touch interface, the...

The efforts to reduce foreclosures by keeping borrowers in their homes have been a failure because of incentives and conflicts...

Sage North America has partnered up with ROAM Data to deliver mobile payments to its SMB customers and taken a...

The Electronic Funds Transfer A, the largest inter-industry group within the payments industry, has launched their own resource site dedicated...

Transit represents a small dollar in the open-loop market, but cities that have adopted open-loop transit card programs are realizing...

Indicative of much of the activity we've been seeing concerning lower-cost payments for ecommerce merchants, Toronto-based Aramor Payments is making...

Bank of America decided to put the past behind them when they agreed to settle a class action lawsuit over...

In a highly visible commentary, this Washington Post article recounts many well known (to the payments industry) arguments against discount/interchange-based...

Merchants and card providers are always looking for ways to extend the life of their cards and add value to...