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.

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Reports

How Close Is Proximity? Part II: Alternative Proximity Mobile Payments in 2009

  • Javelin Report
  • Date: January 5, 2010
  • Author(s): Mercator
  • Research Topic(s): Emerging, Global
How Close Is Proximity? Part II: Alternative Proximity Mobile Payments in 2009

Mobile Payment Systems: With or Without Banks

  • Javelin Report
  • Date: January 4, 2010
  • Author(s): Mercator
  • Research Topic(s): Emerging, Global
The power struggle between mobile network operators and banks has long been considered the main reason preventing mobile proximity payments from becoming a world-wide phenomenon. This Mercator Research Note looks at how the issue can be solved i...

EMV Migration in Asia-Pacific

  • Javelin Report
  • Date: December 26, 2009
  • Author(s): Mercator
  • Research Topic(s): Global
Asia-Pacific is the second largest market for EMV products and services after Europe. However, the lack of regional regulators or co-ordinated migration plans make things more complicated. And payments industries in Asia-Pac countries vary drama...

Consumer Prepaid Distribution Strategies, And The 'Malling' Of Prepaid

  • Javelin Report
  • Date: December 23, 2009
  • Author(s): Mercator
  • Research Topic(s): Prepaid
Consumer Prepaid Distribution Strategies,And The "Malling" Of Prepaid

Electronic Bill Pay and Presentment: Take a Number; a Consumer Will Be Right with You (Maybe)

  • Javelin Report
  • Date: December 23, 2009
  • Author(s): Mercator
  • Research Topic(s): Debit
Electronic Bill Pay and Presentment: Take a Number;a Consumer Will Be Right with You (Maybe)

2010 Credit Card Outlook: A Glass Of Flat Champagne

  • Impact Note
  • Date: December 22, 2009
  • Author(s): Mercator
  • Research Topic(s): Credit, Global
While credit cards are no longer in freefall, the U.S. card market has not yet bottomed out. 2010 is likely to be a year of stabilization and likely flat. The card industry must begin to grapple with long-term threats stemming from the recession...

How Developing World FIs Will Miss the Biggest Consumer Financial Services Market of All Time

  • Javelin Report
  • Date: December 22, 2009
  • Author(s): Mercator
  • Research Topic(s): Global, Prepaid
Retail banks in developing economies face a tough choice. They can remain in their current niches of serving their handful of well-to-do customers or they can take a page out of the mobile industry's book, update their retailing knowledge, and m...

Merchant Funded Rewards -Debit Loyalty Programs and Roles for Acquirers in MFDNs

  • Javelin Report
  • Date: December 22, 2009
  • Author(s): Mercator
  • Research Topic(s): Debit
Merchant Funded Rewards -Debit Loyalty Programs and Roles for Acquirers in MFDNs

Consumer Remote Deposit Capture - A Bank in Every Pocket

  • Javelin Report
  • Date: December 21, 2009
  • Author(s): Mercator
  • Research Topic(s): Debit
Consumer Remote Deposit CaptureA Consumer in Every Pocket

PayPal + Banks = Growth?

  • Javelin Report
  • Date: December 21, 2009
  • Author(s): Mercator
  • Research Topic(s): Debit
PayPal is experiencing explosive growth in market penetration, services offered, and application development. Has the traditional financial services market acknowledged their ascendency or is it just not looking close enough?

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