Mercator Insights

Major card networks have recently announced they will certify new technology tools such as Near Field Communication Host Card Emulation...

As the political crisis in Ukraine continues to unfold, the strong actions taken by President Putin in Crimea and potentially...

The world of banking channels—specifically ATMs—continues to be dynamic and challenging for financial institutions. With the sunsetting of support for...

Person-to-person payments, which started with cash payments, then moved to Western Union to enable long-distance money transfers, finally evolved in...

Recently, Nivard Cabraal, Governor of Sri Lanka’s central bank, publicly urged staff at Hindu temples and other places of religious...

The ongoing saga of the Durbin Amendment took another turn today. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of...

The most recent research report from Mercator Advisory Group’s Prepaid Advisory Service, Managing Gift Card Operational Complexity and Enabling a...

I just got back from the 2014 NAPCP Commercial Card and Payment Conference held in Indian Wells, California. This year’s...

The last session I attended at BAI Payments Connect 2014 (March 10–12) was a discussion of the concept of “smart...

ATM fees periodically fall under regulatoryscrutiny in the United States and abroad. For example, in an effortto expand "no-cost basic...