Research

Market participants including banks, vendors, and finance professionals are apparently having a difficult time achieving consensus about the vocabulary to use to describe changes in corporate accounts payable practices. Part of the confusion ari...

Somewhere between rumor and fact is a new merchant initiative to build, from the ground up, a new payment system. Led by Walmart and Target, the effort is attracting large and medium-sized merchants dissatisfied with the cost and security of the...

BRIC Debit Divergence: Brazil and India

Too Early to Call: Five Mobile Giants

New research by Mercator Advisory Group overviews the NFC value chain and major participants in both the NFC and QR value chains

Growing P-Card Programs: Engaging with Suppliers

Measuring Reload: ACH, Cards, Cash, and Checks

Mobile Opportunities for Closed-Loop Issuers

Alipay, Hyves Payments, and Seamless provide successful payments systems in Europe and Asia, but they have yet to make an appearance in the U.S. What services are these models providing, and how would they translate to the American market?

If electronic gift card loads grow at their current rate, then they will total 3 percent of the direct-to-consumer gift card market in the United States in 2014. This research note provides a baseline projection and explains why the market will ...