Mercator Advisory Group

We’ve written in the past at how smartphone penetration will accelerate based on dropping hardware costs. That observation was simply...

Payment security, indeed all security, involves a loop of activities: Begin: Assess the situation Security Technology Rule #1: Deploy security...

A good post on Insiden discusses the impacts of expected termination of national credit transfer and direct debit services between...

The recent changes Chase has been making to their fee schedule is one indicator of how water – in this...

Blackhawk Network, the gift card mall subsidiary of Safeway Corp., has launched a gift card mall on Facebook. The company...

As foreign payment services desperately trying to crack into the China market, PayPal makes a surprising progress by forming a...

Advanced Merchant Solutions, Inc. is another outfit that has put together a software, hardware and services package for mobile merchants....

UniRush now offers a new payment plan and a tool that will help cardholders identify the plan that best fits...

Given the OTS action against Meta, Program Managers have been scrambling to find additional BIN sponsors. So while the demand...

The U.S. Postal Service is planning to launch a two-year pilot in May, during which it will sell open-loop gift...