Mercator Insights

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

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureaurecently published an Advance Notice ofProposed Rulemaking asking for the public's comment on how theythink prepaid...

Two sales boosting strategies - third-partygift card distribution and gas rewards points - have come intoconflict at gift card malls....

The United States Postal Service has beenunder a lot of pressure lately to cut its costs and end itsdeficit. It...

Since I began reporting and writing about thepayments industry in late 2007, I've come across what seems like aninfinite number...

Mobile devices already have changed the what,when, where, and how of retail, yet only 12% of U.S. mobile phoneusers have...

Credit unions, community banks and othersmall financial institutions increasingly are thinking outside thebox as they search for ways to broaden...

A recent press release from the websiteBankrate.com is entitled "Banrate.com Surveys Prepaid Cards, FindsFees Galore." Why fees on prepaid cards...

With the announcement that Chase hasintroduced a Prepaid Financial Services (GPR) product calledLiquid, several financial analysts have predicted that this...

Two bills, one in the Connecticut Senate andone in the New Hampshire Senate, demonstrate how complex theregulations can be around...