Research

LevelUp’s mobile payments application is disrupting traditional payments value chain.

Biometric authentication has been a fixture of the public imagination for decades through frequent appearances in futuristic popular fiction. In the year 2014, these solutions may finally make the breakthrough from symbols of cutting edge techno...

Mercator Advisory Group survey finds consumers consider cobranded cards to offer more valuable rewards than bank-issued cards

Should financial institutions be concerned?

Smaller Banks and Credit Unions Are Poised to Provide the Richest Debit Rewards Programs  

Although social networks are a 21st-century creation, many of today’s consumers would be hard-pressed to remember a time before Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Google+. The worldwide adoption of social networks has altered the payment ecosystem:...

Javelin’s senior analysts identify 10 trends that are transforming financial services, evaluate the implications, and map out action steps in 2014 for banking, payments, mobile, and security strategists.

Extended grace period to further delay migration

Chase has chosen to exit several prepaid segments, showing how difficult the business has become.

New research from Mercator Advisory Group addresses recent trends and product development in m-POS in the United States and Europe