What shapes consumer transactions and payment technologies, and where is it going?

Any conventional wisdom about payments—how they’re made, the currencies being used, the cards presently in favor—doesn’t last long before the next wave of technology, innovation, and regulation. Javelin’s analysts conduct research at the forefront of payments, identifying the emerging trends for financial services companies and payments providers and offering insight into how they can best position themselves not just for what is current but also for what is coming.

Payments Research

Reports

The Rise of New Consumer and Small Business Lending Models: Peer-to-Peer and More

  • Javelin Report
  • Date: December 6, 2013
  • Author(s): Pradeep Moudgal
  • Research Topic(s): Emerging
Peer-to-peer lending and other new lending models are gaining popularity with consumers and small businesses. This market space is interesting and complex. It is filled with emerging technology that applies new credit underwriting criteria and s...

Gift Cards Remain at the Top of Holiday Shopping Lists

  • Javelin Report
  • Date: December 4, 2013
  • Author(s): Ben Jackson
  • Research Topic(s): Prepaid
Amounts spent on prepaid gift cards in the U.S. will grow in the 2013 holiday season. Mercator Advisory Group’s holiday forecast of loads in the In-Store Gift Card segment of closed-loop prepaid cards predicts that the business will continue to ...

Online Cash Payments: Threat or Opportunity?

  • Javelin Report
  • Date: December 3, 2013
  • Author(s): Ronald Mazursky
  • Research Topic(s): Debit
Over the last several years, as online sales and bill pay have gained momentum, merchants and financial services executives have explored ways to expand their role in online purchasing and payments by attracting the potential “buyers/payers” seg...

2014 Commercial and Enterprise Payments Outlook: The Year of Integration

Electronic invoice and payment solutions will be paired to enable fuller order-to-pay services

2014 Emerging Technologies Outlook

  • Impact Note
  • Date: December 2, 2013
  • Author(s): Pradeep Moudgal
  • Research Topic(s): Emerging
The continuing payments transformation

2014 International Payments Market Outlook

  • Impact Note
  • Date: December 2, 2013
  • Author(s): Tristan Hugo-Webb
  • Research Topic(s): Global
Card payments and e-commerce are growing in virtually every international market.

2014 U.S. Credit Card Outlook

  • Impact Note
  • Date: December 2, 2013
  • Author(s): Michael Misasi
  • Research Topic(s): Credit
The paradox continues: After a surprisingly strong year in 2012, the credit card industry has delivered mixed results in 2013. Purchase volumes continue to grow, but new accounts and increases in card balances remain elusive.

2014 U.S. Prepaid Outlook: It’s All Political

  • Impact Note
  • Date: December 2, 2013
  • Author(s): Ben Jackson
  • Research Topic(s): Prepaid
The courts, Congress, and regulatory agencies will continue to shape the industry.

2014 Debit Cards Outlook

  • Impact Note
  • Date: December 1, 2013
  • Author(s): Ronald Mazursky
  • Research Topic(s): Debit
A perspective on the U.S. debit issuing industry for the year ahead.

Payment Card Data Security Report: Combating Breaches, Perfecting EMV, and Safeguarding Mobile Payments

Data breaches, EMV, and mobile payments are key issues affecting the security of payment card data, and managing each will require overcoming formidable challenges.  Criminals are seizing on lax data security to compromise card data at an alarmi...

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