Mercator Insights

Does your Facebook account informationinclude your real name, or a pseudonym? When you set up youraccount, did you provide your...

Recently the Financial Crimes EnforcementNetwork (FinCEN) released its final rules on Bank Secrecy ActRegulations relating to prepaid access. While the...

On July 19, the Consumer Financial ProtectionBureau (CFPB) released its report to Congress, The Impact ofDifferences Between Consumer- and Creditor-Purchased...

Acquirer pricing strategies in the age of Durbinwill likely see major revision before the October 1st deadline forimplementation of the...

The proliferation of social buying sites likeGroupon, is threatening to become more white noise in the market,and so we have...

Book seller Borders Group, Inc.'s liquidationplan calls for it to continue honoring gift cards and providingdiscounts to members of its...

Even before we have the quarterly data fromVisa and MasterCard, we know that credit card-based spending is up.And American Express's...

One of the joys of Google searches is theunintended find. I was looking for something of earth-shatteringimportance to the credit...

With the announcement of the final debitinterchange rules, one might expect debit rewards programs toevolve more rapidly in the direction...

Prepaid card program managers could soon havea hard time distinguishing their products from one another underthe Federal Reserve's rules for...