Mercator Insights

Brazilian consumers have a long history usingprepaid cards. Two key factors drive prepaid card use in Brazil andother Latin American...

Within the past six weeks, I have attendedtwo major conferences, each of which featured "best practices" casestudies of financial supply...

The Federal Reserve released their analysis of the impact of debitcard interchange fee regulations for 2011 and the news seemsencouraging...

This year's lively Electronic TransactionAssociation Annual Meeting and Expo had just concluded and an issuefrequently raised in conversation with attendees,...

Every time I mention online groceries, eyesroll and executives start checking email. Sure, right, tried that,been there, but...a recent study...

The Brazilian merchant acquiring market isundergoing one of the biggest fundamental changes in industrystructure. In the past, the market was...

In its recent "The Future of Money in a Mobile Age" report,the Pew Internet and American Life Project has released...

It's been about three weeks since merchantacquiring processor and independent sales organization GlobalPayments Inc. revealed it suffered a security breach....

As financial institutions search for new waysto improve the effectiveness of their marketing efforts, many arelooking to the combination of...

The future of the New Jersey gift card law that would requireretailers to collect zip codes from gift card buyers...