Mercator Insights

Another active day at NRF with attendees and exhibitors enjoyingthe restored mood of retailers. Mobile and security dominate theretailing and...

The 100th anniversary of the Retail BIG Show, theNational Retail Federation's (NRF) annual conference,is a happy one, at least when...

An article publishedby Reuters describes the Democratsmisguided effort to cap fees on prepaid products ignoring theoverwhelming evidence that consumer costs...

The question of the hour is:Is credit card volume up ordown in this holiday season?The answer is clearly yes.One thing...

The complexity of the modern electronic payments industry was onfull display in Washington as the Federal Reserve Bank staffawkwardly attempted...

Thursday, December 16th at 2:30pm it seemed as if theworld had stopped spinning as thousands of participants watchedwith bated breath...

As the U.S. market struggled, emerging markets are becomingincreasingly important to international card networks' growth. In2009, Visa saw its total...

Now that Isis, the mobile operator payments joint venture, islaunched and intending to make NFC payments a reality, one of...

As the rules that will implementthe Durbin amendment to the Dodd Frank Act come closer to beingpublished, a number of...

In all the hoopla about social media, from time to time onestumbles on a fragment about social media being used...