Research

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.

B2B Networks: Still Trying to Solve the Paper Problem in Commercial Payments

The Durbin Amendment: No Looking Back

By remaining one of last countries to embrace EMV technology, the United States has a better understanding of the challenges and benefits that EMV debit cards can offer. To date, EMV debit strategies in the U.S. market have caused only ripples i...

A frustration for retail banking institutions is that consumers continue to visit branch tellers for transactions they could easily perform through self-service channels. Past efforts at reducing such teller use have had mixed results, but recen...

Boston, MA - Many people in the payments industry have become frustrated with the slow pace with which NFC-based payments technology has been developing in the U.S.--Google Wallet's initial launch left minimal impact, Isis keeps postponing its o...