Compliance and Regulation

This article originally appeared on ABC Legal Services blog The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) was signed into law...

Account validation is one of the most important, yet least discussed, aspects of the payments lifecycle. Having the ability to...

This posting from the European Commission (EC) website provides a summary of the conditional approval given to Mastercard for the...

When it comes to leading a healthy lifestyle, eating the right food, taking regular exercise, and maintaining a positive mindset...

The Electronic Transactions Association (ETA), the global trade association for the payments technology industry, released today the fourth edition of...

With the deadline extension to PSD2’s Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) well underway, there are steps that merchants must take so...

COVID-19 grabs the headlines in payments these days because of the high levels of risk credit card issuers will bear...

Mercator Advisory Group thinks that the credit card industry benefited from the implementation of Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL), even...

Between the unprecedented global COVID-19 pandemic, staggering levels of unemployment, civil unrest, and particularly contentious political tensions, 2020 is truly...

Mercator Advisory Group's early view on Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) was that the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) would...