New Opportunities in Merchant Aggregation
- Date:September 12, 2012
- Author(s):
- David Fish
- Research Topic(s):
- Credit
- PAID CONTENT
Overview
Merchant aggregation is gaining prominence in the payments industry in a growing number of implementations, but only last year did Visa finally expand its aggregation rules beyond e-commerce to cover all merchant types. Though the aggregator model did not gain official sanction from the card networks until recently, it could end up dominating the future of payments.
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