Mercator Insights

An editorial posted this week onPaymentsSource looks at the Federal Trade Commission's recentactions against independent sales organizations IRN Payment Systemsand...

As banks, thrifts, and other financialinstitutions seek ways to better understand their customers' andmembers' needs, they must sift through enormous...

Bitcoin is dead.The much-hyped virtual currency has had its fundamental valueproposition of being an anonymous electronic currency called intoquestion by...

When identifying the world's leadingdeveloping economies, more often than not you will hear the acronym"BRIC," which stands for Brazil, Russia,...

The prepaid card industry is about to dealwith another image problem at a time when it is doing its best...

As an avid mobile-banking user, I payparticular interest to discussions over when, and whether, feesshould be applied to the service....

In late May, United Kingdom payment-network operator VocaLinkreleased survey results from British consumers about mobile bankingand payments use. Theresultsreinforced the...

In February, processing company TSYSannounced that it would buy prepaid program manager NetSpend forapproximately $1.4 billion in cash. The deal...

I, like a growing number of consumers, am atrisk. I have so many password-protected mobile-app, website, bankand other accounts, I...

In the last 15 years, PayPal has enjoyed ameteoric rise and has gained an enormous consumer followingworldwide. Consumers use PayPal...