Three Small-Business Banking & Payments Opportunities Emerging From the Pandemic

Three Small-Business Banking & Payments Opportunities Emerging From the Pandemic

​America’s small businesses have undergone a period of profound adaptation during the COVID-19 shutdown. If banks take the right steps coming out of the pandemic, these rapid shifts will transform how businesses interact with their bank...
Improve Real-Time Payment Market Positioning Through Consumer Diversity

Improve Real-Time Payment Market Positioning Through Consumer Diversity

  • Javelin Report
  • Date: September 23, 2020
  • Author(s): Krista Tedder
  • Research Topic(s): Tech & Infrastructure
This report helps focus on how consumer groups can be evaluated to diversify ways to pay and expand the market share of the financial institution through accessibility.  
Fight or Flight: The Impacts of a Data Breach Event

Fight or Flight: The Impacts of a Data Breach Event

Data breaches have evolved into a variety of threats that go far beyond payment card information and login credentials. Consumers are quickly adopting digital behaviors that encompass an array of merchants, mobile device apps, and financial serv...
Payment Acceptance – The Payments Shift

Payment Acceptance – The Payments Shift

U.S. Small businesses are seeing card usage increase as the payments market shifts. Mercator Advisory Group new survey research finds a greater share of small businesses’ sales are coming from cards as the pandemic causes changes to how people ...
Debit Card Abruptly Finds Itself Top of Wallet

Debit Card Abruptly Finds Itself Top of Wallet

  • Javelin Report
  • Date: September 11, 2020
  • Author(s): Sarah Grotta
  • Research Topic(s): Credit, Debit
The Debit Card Abruptly Finds Itself at the Top of the Wallet Mercator Advisory Group’s latest report suggests strategies debit card issuers may consider to retain this preferred card status with their cardholders.
Credit Card Products for a New User Environment

Credit Card Products for a New User Environment

  • Javelin Report
  • Date: September 4, 2020
  • Author(s): Brian Riley
  • Research Topic(s): Credit
Credit Cards Products for a New User Environment after COVID-19 Thinking beyond the current economic crisis, Mercator Advisory Group releases new research that looks at the current market and how it will change.
Asian Mobile Pays Continue High Growth, But U.S. Market Expansion Stalls

Asian Mobile Pays Continue High Growth, But U.S. Market Expansion Stalls

The Influence of Mobile Apps WeChat Pay and Alipay Extends Far Beyond China’s Borders Mercator Advisory Group releases new research on the expanding influence of the largest mobile payment apps in Asia and how they are setting a path for mobile...
U.S. Stimulus Payments: Another Proving Ground for Prepaid Cards

U.S. Stimulus Payments: Another Proving Ground for Prepaid Cards

With 140 million entitled U.S. citizens allocated $239 billion in stimulus funds, checks and ACH payments filled the need for most. For 3.6 million people without payment information on file, prepaid cards were a lifeline with $5.42 billion in e...
Threats from Within: Social Engineering to Malicious Intent

Threats from Within: Social Engineering to Malicious Intent

This report will look at malicious insiders, non-malicious insiders, and accidental threats that can be identified and mitigated before a financial loss occurs. The report will also highlight how the threat landscape, both economic and situation...
Steady Progress Through Easing the Experience: Commercial Cards Success Prescription

Steady Progress Through Easing the Experience: Commercial Cards Success Prescription

Consistently improving the product and delivery systems pays dividends.