Research

Contactless cards could help customers get used to making payments without the traditional swipe and encourage them to connect payments to NFC chips in their mobile devices.

Prepaid Cards: A Survey of Bank Attitudes, Adoption Rates, and Deployment Plans

China's E-Payment Market 2012

The increasing scrutiny in many countries on interchange will cost the global payments industry between $30 billion and $50 billion (USD) in interchange revenues a year. The impacts go beyond top international card networks and major global bank...

New research from Mercator Advisory Group examines key influencers and market drivers in this rapidly evolving market

Boston, MA November 2, 2012 For prepaid card program managers, distribution is top priority. New research from Mercator Advisory Group, Prepaid Distribution Strategies in the United States, examines the methods available to prepaid card program ...

Mercator Advisory Group's holiday forecast of loads in the In-Store Gift Card segment of closed-loop prepaid cards predicts that the business will grow and again most of the cards will be plastic.

Canadian Payment Card Market 2012

The global Near Field Communication (NFC) payments market has been developing at a slower rate than the payments industry hopes. But progress has been made on different fronts in 2012. Cautious optimism is the mood in the industry. This research...

As customers evaluate their relationships with their financial institutions and consider alternate banking methods, many are discovering the value of surcharge-free ATMs and shared branching networks.