Mercator Insights

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...

In late November, eBay announced their newly improved shoppingapp including…"The integration of RedLaser's barcode scanning technologyis particularly useful, allowing users...

It is hard not to be amazed by what is currently happening inthe prepaid card market in China right now....

If 2009-2010 has told credit card industry anything, it is thatthe famous Berra-ism (It Ain't Over Until It's Over) does...

After months of planning, Citibank is clearly on the move with anewly-invigorated social media strategy.Two major initiatives werelaunched on Tuesday,...

With the CARD Act, regulators have given their charges a raregift - compliance that leads to marketing magic. Thanks to...

Protecting the most vulnerable consumers in our society shouldbe a top concern of our regulators and the mortgage meltdown hasdone...

The shoe finally dropped on VeriFone's acquisition ofHypercom. On Wednesday, October 17, 2010, the all stocktransaction, valuing each Hypercom share...

FiCentive, Inc. has introduced a service that enables consumersto reload prepaid cards using their bank's online bill service - acapability...