Mercator Insights

Returning from the Prepaid Expo, it seems clear to me that theindustry is more optimistic about the future of the...

On Wednesday, March 9,VeriFone's CEO Doug Bergeron lobbed a Molotov cocktail at its fastgrowing, and far smaller, competitor Square. The...

Today's economy continues to drive surprises inconsumer spending. According to new consumer and business spendingdata for Q4/2010, released by American...

Regardless of how the Durbin Amendment worksout, retail financial service business models are alreadytransitioning and it's unlikely they'll be clawed...

At least once a year, the contactlesspayments industry, indeed all of us, has to put up with someonespreading fear about...

On March 1, research firm Bretton Woods Inc.and the Network Branded Prepaid Card Association released thereport "Analysis of Reloadable Prepaid...

This week the Consumer Financial ProtectionBureau released study findings complimenting the credit cardindustry for its compliance with the CARD Act....

Credit card annual fees have long been an important component of the credit card industry's pricing strategy, helping issuers generate...

The rise of social buying sites such asBuyWithMe, Groupon, and LiveSocial has added a new element into theclosed-loop prepaid world...

At lastweek's Smart Card Alliance Mobile andTransit Conference, the single consensus on NFC was that 2011 is,at last, "the year...