Mercator Insights

A month ago at the Visa Security Summit I heardthe phrase "breach fatigue" for the first time and it gave...

The People's Bank of China recently announcedthe first 27 licensees of non-bank payment service providers inChina, out of the 32...

Over the past week, general purpose,reloadable prepaid cards have taken a beating in the press and inthe public eye. Florida...

Our Cambridge neighbor MIT is celebrating its150th anniversary. In honor of that event, TheBoston Globe has assembled and published a...

In the fall of 2010, small business creditcard issuers experienced a brush with potential new regulation asthe industry was accused...

Reading an article about Tesco (a major UKretailer and provider of consumer financial services) acquiring asocial media company (Bzzagent) got...

This is being written on May 21st,the day the world is to end. Perhaps someday the world will end,but apparently...

Like millions of Internet users, I often useAdobe Flash®Player for viewing online videos. One day three weeksago, the familiar "update"...

As I talk with merchants, processors, and othersin the industry, I sense the perhaps wistful desire to limit thescope of...

The recent subpoenas by the Florida Attorney general to major prepaid cardproviders again highlight the need for transparency in theprepaid...