Research

Unpredictability in the U.S. economic and political environment will likely cause segment shift in prepaid.

New survey explores U.S. consumers’ comfort with technology and its impact on their shopping. Third report from Mercator Advisory Group’s 2019 Buyer PaymentsInsight Survey focuses on U.S. consumers’ attitudes and shopping behaviors.

Continuing with digital adoption to deliver better, easier, and faster global services.

U.S. merchants willing to invest in digital solutions that drive consumer engagement will be rewarded in 2020.

Investment in faster and real-time payments picks up and the impact on traditional payments is already being observed.

Behavioral biometrics is quickly emerging as a useful means of lowering fraud losses. The technology pulls data from the gyroscopes of smartphones, monitoring and measuring the rates of keystrokes, among other techniques, to accurately ensure th...

Happy days are here again as U.S. credit card issuers reverse the downward trend in their profitability as the next decade begins.

This report details how this evolution has occurred, and explores how banks can cement their status as the centralized hub through which business clients monitor and manage their finances.

Open Loop Prepaid Loads Continued Measured Steady Growth in 2018. New research report from Mercator Advisory Group shows which segments of the prepaid market will grow and which will decline through 2023.

Consumer Use of Mobile Payments Rebounds. Mercator Advisory Group survey finds that U.S. consumers’ use of mobile payments has rebounded to levels seen in 2016.