Mercator Insights

Another year has passed and retailers flushwith holiday-shopping revenue converged on New York City this pastweek for the National Retail...

As banks and credit unions search for ways tobe more competitive in 2013, many are examining analytics toimprove the customer...

In the past month, the relatively obscuretopic of business-to-business payment terms has become headlinenews in the United Kingdom. The subject...

Today shoppers, credit card users, andvirtually everyone else making a payment is bombarded by offers totempt them into another purchase....

As poor economic conditions persist acrossEurope, more and more local communities are embracing alternativecurrencies as a major secondary payment options,...

Now that 2013 is here, this is a good time totake a moment to review some of the key trends...

News in mid-December on two different frontsillustrated the deep gulf that separates privacy advocates fromcompulsive data gatherers. On the one...

Mobile apps have become the next big thing inpayments, but in the land rush for space on smartphones many appdesigners...

In 2012, the debit industry in the U.S. beganto recover from the turmoil resulting from the Durbin Amendment,but that doesn't...

VeriFone Dec. 13 announced it will divestmany of its assets in its Sail mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) product.The San Jose, Calif.-based...