Research

Mercator Advisory Group releases a new research report summarizing EU consumer data privacy rules that will affect U.S. issuers beginning May 25, 2018.

America loves Amazon’s Alexa, with millions of owners turning to the digital assistant daily for entertainment and information. More than half of all consumers are also interested in leveraging their connected speakers for bank balance and recen...

Mercator Advisory Group reports that commercial card spending by mid-to-large corporations in major markets outside of the U.S. continues to grow at healthy levels.

Mobile banking is rising rapidly, but the user experience still needs improvement. New Mercator Advisory Group survey of U.S. consumers finds mobile banking apps need a better customer experience.

Banks and credit unions can benefit from BIN sponsorship of prepaid card programs New research from Mercator Advisory Group discusses BIN sponsorship for the prepaid industry, what is a BIN sponsor, should you be one, or do you need one.

Even as identify fraud reaches new highs in the US, the identity protection market is facing new struggles in satisfying users. Between 2015 and 2017, the IDPS industry shrank by $500 million in revenue, to total $3.7 billion in 2017. This point...

Banks are failing at mobile account opening while consumers continue to start a growing percentage of overall applications via smartphone. With nearly 1 in 3 checking account applicants turning first to smartphones, mobile origination is a huge...

Corporate banking use cases for open APIs are on the rise.  Open application programming interfaces, or APIs, have become widespread across commercial and industrial organizations, and financial services is no exception. The larger players are n...

As open banking and its enabling APIs debut in Europe and the U.K., the waves are felt in the U.S. Mercator Advisory Group foresees U.S. open banking developments similar to those in EU and U.K. though without the regulatory mandates.

Mercator Advisory Group releases new research and U.S. market forecast for person-to-person payment products.