Mercator Insights

American Banker recently noted PonemonInstitute and Palo Alto Networks surveys that indicate anincreasing number of employees, some of whom work...

Technophiles like to predict that plasticwill disappear and that all gift cards will be purchased, sent,received, and redeemed via computers...

The long wait is over as a settlement hasbeen reached in the "Payment Card Interchange Fee and MerchantDiscount Antitrust Litigation"....

Consumer advocacy groups and governmentregulators seem to judge the prepaid industry using a different setof standards compared with other available...

In early June, I took a taxi to meet somefriends for dinner in Boston. As the driver pulled up to...

Apple Passbook mobile payments offered consumers an early bridge between traditional payment cards and the emerging world of smartphone-based commerce....

As I discussed in my recent report, Small Credit Card Issuers 2012: Waiting For ARenaissance, small credit card issuers have...

Watching the mobile wallet space is likewatching a meteor shower. Each bright light that flashes has itsown unique trajectory, but...

A recent KPMG study found nine out of 10banks are in the process of reexamining their operating models.Banks are rethinking...

Card manufacturing is generally regarded as alogistical concern, but as payments technology advances, how cardsare made and packaged will become...