Mercator Insights

If you're broke and hungry with only $10 to spend ondinner, would a $25 all-you-can-eat buffet help? Senator Menendezthinks it...

The uncertainty over international card networks'interchange rates has cleared up a bit when Visa agrees to reduceits interchange rates to...

Every day, it seems, we learn ofanother marketer's innovation enabling Web-based firms to track ourevery move.What products are we researching?What...

In a published version of a talkshe gave that the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia PaymentCards Center Conference on Dec....

Device fingerprinting, the ability to create a uniqueprofile of each Internet-connected digital device, is a leadingfraud prevention tool for e-commerce...

It continues to amaze me how much interest the private labelcard business generates in the industry and the media, consideringthe...

I came across an announcement regarding a new peer-to-peerpayment service called Dwolla (https://www.dwolla.com) and whatcaught my eye was the description...

Going in to the BlackFriday-led shopping season, Discover's U.S. SpendingMonitorconsumer survey was showing some positive signs--or at least lessbad signs...

This interesting blog by Chris Skinner examinesthe ongoing competitive challenges the US based card networks havein gaining access to the...

Two surveys from the National Retail Federation show thatspending on gift cards will be up this year, and this presents...