Research

New Mercator Advisory Group Report Shows Where Opportunities and Challenges May Lie in the Small-Dollar Credit Market

Alternative Payments Networks: A Matrix Model

The release of the Federal Reserve's preliminary December G19 reading on consumer revolving credit provided a modestly positive ending to an otherwise dismal 2010, and the press applauded. January's preliminary reading resumed the decline. For n...

Special combined report and pre-recorded webinar provides guidance to financial institutions on managing prepaid card programs

Retail checking accounts have been provided to US consumers at little or no cost for decades. In 2010, this service strategy began to change as the predictable non-interest income streams of payments-related fees were either clawed back or threa...

Debit cards are blossoming in India as consumers shun credit cards at difficult time. Rewards programs appear to significantly facilitate the progress, as the SBI Freedom Rewardz Program suggests.

As national markets around the world recover, payments will recover as well. But economic recovery is uneven and specific market and regulatory challenges translate into varied prospects by region and country.

Debit Cardholders: Calm Before the Storm

The Mercator Map of India: An Overview of the Subcontinent's Payments Marke

Debit Cardholders: Calm Before the Storm