Mercator Advisory Group

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...

The Spanish banking giant BBVA announced lastweek that they were going to deploy a new ATM designed to enhancethe customer...

Prepaid cards that run on Restricted Authorization Networks(RANs) allow companies to direct cardholder spending while still permitting purchases at multiple...

Chase continues its program of making it easier for their customers to make deposits at their fleet of over 16,000...

Visa announced that it has sold a 10% stake in CBSS, a prepaid issuer in Brazil, to local banks Banco...

The market for General Purpose Reloadable (GPR) prepaid cards has fragmented even further with the announcement that Western Union will...

Instant debit card issuance can be a strong competitive differentiator, especially as consumers have come rely on plastic more than...

While conceding that the domestic person-to-person market is an attractive one, The FRB of Atlanta believes that many banks are...

We’ve been reading the tea leaves for the last couple of years on Apple’s plans for NFC, our forecast of...