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Consumer mobile purchasing surged to an all-time high, reaching almost $60 billion and demonstrating triple-digit growth in 2013. Consumers are increasingly turning to tablets and phones for purchasing despite the fact that many sites are not id...

Wearable Payments May Someday Take the Place of Cash, Cards, and Phones New research from Mercator Advisory Group Examines the Future of Wearable Payment Devices

LevelUp’s mobile payments application is disrupting traditional payments value chain.

Biometric authentication has been a fixture of the public imagination for decades through frequent appearances in futuristic popular fiction. In the year 2014, these solutions may finally make the breakthrough from symbols of cutting edge techno...

Mercator Advisory Group survey finds consumers consider cobranded cards to offer more valuable rewards than bank-issued cards

Should financial institutions be concerned?

Smaller Banks and Credit Unions Are Poised to Provide the Richest Debit Rewards Programs  

Although social networks are a 21st-century creation, many of today’s consumers would be hard-pressed to remember a time before Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Google+. The worldwide adoption of social networks has altered the payment ecosystem:...

Javelin’s senior analysts identify 10 trends that are transforming financial services, evaluate the implications, and map out action steps in 2014 for banking, payments, mobile, and security strategists.

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