Mercator Insights

Talking about new payment delivery channels canbe like an academic theory - sounds good, might not play outexactly as imagined....

According to press reports, Amazon.com Inc. islooking at developing a mobile phone payment service. It may eveninclude an NFC marketing...

I will admit I have been a personalpartisan in favor of issuing EMV cards to U.S. travelers. I am notthe...

Last week, the Federal Reserve released its 2010Federal Reserve Payments Study. The Study found that prepaid cardsrepresented the fastest growing...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI, Russia's centralbank) has been reforming the country's payment system, including adomestic card network that...

This blog entry seems to be déjà vu. Consumerrevolving credit declined an estimated $2.7 billion in Februaryfrom January (which was...

The recent revelation that Facebook had established (inDecember, 2010) a Florida-registered subsidiary called FacebookPayments has inspired a flurry of anxious...

This past week I attended an industrypayments conference and had the opportunity to sit in on a sessionthat presented some...

The Isis mobile commerce joint-venture ofVerizon Wireless, AT&T, and AT&T's acquisition targetT-Mobile has selected the first two cities for NFC...

When it comes to everyday spend, there arestill few things more convenient than pulling out your trusty debitcard, swiping it,...