Mercator Advisory Group

The smartphone ecosystem is prepping for NFC and Android, Google’s smartphone operating system, is a major element in that ecosystem....

Profitability is a challenge for financial institutions serving light volume customers with low balances who have nearly as many customer...

With so much depending on the trajectory of the US retail holiday season, a bevy of new consumer shopping measures...

Having finally worked its fraud and underwriting issues to a commercial conclusion, Square got underway just a few months ago....

With Hypercom’s acquisition underway, it looked like there would be just two POS behemoths: VeriFone and Ingenico. Of course, there...

Private label credit cards are again stirring up the rumor mill, and at a time when leading credit card issuers...

eBay decided to look at how its customers were shipping this year and found, no surprise, that the acceptance of...

For online gaming publishers and merchants, the tension between payment security and friction-free payment is a dynamic balance, constantly requiring...

Columnist and certified PCI QSA Walt Conway blogs how Visa’s mandates for mobile commerce apps to comply with PA-DSS are...

First Data has produced a year-over-year comparison of shopping volumes for Black Friday 2010 vs 2009. The bottom line looks...