Mercator Insights

The future of retailer-led mobile payments appears increasingly uncertain as the Merchant Customer Exchange, better known as MCX, shifts away...

Hidden among the many recent headlines about virtual reality and digital assistants from Google’s 2016 developers conference was an announcement...

Even though much of the banking industry’s attention is on digital and omnichannel banking, innovative new entrants are shaking up...

The recent BAI Payments Connect 2016 conference and expo, held in San Diego March 7–9 event offered a forum for...

Sporting goods retailer Sports Authority announced in a press release on March 2 that it had filed for Chapter 11...

A recent article in Money magazine describes the use of general purpose, reloadable prepaid card by millennials as a “head-scratcher...

The proliferation of payments options seems like it should be a good thing for shoppers. But as EMV changes the...

The use of in-store mobile payments has been increasing steadily since 2012, when only 3% of U.S. adults had ever...

The wait is over to learn when the Federal Reserve will begin to raise the benchmark federal funds rate. Banking...

The financial services industry isn’t exactly known for its agility or willingness to take big risks . This leads market...