Mercator Insights

Every day we wake up to a news story aboutanother innovative new concept in the payments industry, mostlyfrom companies such...

In the past few months, a couple of newsstories from Sweden and the United Kingdom have come out that mayprovide...

Mercator Advisory Group's Tenth Annual U.S. Prepaid Cards Market Forecast2013-2016, which identifies prepaid card loads, growth, andmarket dynamics across 26...

For businesses, the lockbox expedites paymentcollection and application. Wholesale lockbox, an old cashmanagement tool, is new again thanks to corporates'...

Banks throughout the country are continuallysearching for new markets to serve and products to serve them. Thisis natural evolution: As...

A new study commissioned by MasterCardrevealed that in Ireland alone consumers could end up paying €107($144) million in extra card...

While cash may one day become insignificantconsumer payment instrument, it remains right now very relevant toconsumers in all corners of...

Now that we're all back in our offices afterattending the recent ATM, Debit & Prepaid and BAI RetailDelivery conferences, this...

We are all changing how we behave as we adaptto smartphone technologies. Mobile apps have literally changed ourdaily routine. We...

Gilles Ubaghs described the impact of HostCard Emulation included in Android's new KitKat operating system inhis article