Overview
A familiar landscape is evolving.
Every merchant makes significant investment in new services brought on by enhancements to their payments systems. Each year brings an expanding array of new vendor solutions for merchants’ consideration, and 2017 will be no different. Mercator Advisory Group’s 2017 Outlook for merchant services highlights some notable trends and issues that will have an impact on every merchant’s business in the upcoming year.
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