What shapes consumer transactions and payment technologies, and where is it going?
Rapid changes in technology, regulation, and consumer behavior continue to reshape the payments industry. Javelin’s payments research team tracks commercial and consumer payment trends, evaluates emerging payment technologies, and anticipates what’s next. Through unbiased research, data-driven insights, and actionable advice, we help financial institutions, payments providers, and technology companies develop strategies that position them for success in a rapidly evolving market.
Payments Research
Reports
Google’s Advancement to Become a Super App
A simple mention in the Global Payments investment briefing provided insight into how embedded payments will be expanding through Google Advertising. Already a revenue powerhouse, Google's advertisements are wide reaching and cross many platform...
U.S. Faster Payments Forecast: The Volume Begins to Build
Mercator Advisory Group releases new research estimating and forecasting the faster and real-time payments progression.
Improving Cash Cycle Management Is a Key to Corporate Stability
A Mercator Advisory Group research report assesses the approaches and benefits of automating financial operations.
2021 Outlook: Prepaid
COVID changes everything, with the government and EWA leading the way. While the effects of the CFPB’s Prepaid Rules in 2019 in no way constitute a minor event, their overall impacts have been buffered by the advent of the COVID-19 virus, i...
Virtual Account Management Gains Momentum
Virtual accounts are gaining wider adoption as banks and financial professionals see the benefits accrue.
2021 Financial Industry Trends: Payments
Join Krista Tedder, Director of Payments as she walks you through Javelin’s predictions for the Payments Industry.
BNPL Borrowing: Confessions of a Credit Card Manager
Credit card issuers must do more than observe Buy Now Pay Later lenders; they need to decompose the process and shift the playing field back to banking.
Brace for an Interchange Squeeze
A Justice Department antitrust lawsuit did more than scuttle Visa’s $5.3 billion acquisition of Plaid. It spotlighted a worrisome strategic issue facing the financial services industry in 2021: the threat to interchange revenue.
Third-Party Delivery Firms Form Necessary but Uneasy Alliances with Merchants
Home delivery of groceries and restaurant food is now a way of life for most U.S. households. During 2020, COVID-19 drove online ordering and doorstep delivery. Grocers in particular had more online volume than they could handle. For restaurants...
U.S. Bill Pay Market: Can Financial Institutions Win Back Payers?
In a new report, Mercator Advisory Group forecasts the U.S. bill pay market will edge closer to $4 Trillion in annual processed volume. Checks payments will give way to card and electronic transaction types.