Research

Micropayments and the Durbin Amendment

For all transactions under $12, the Durbin Amendment resulted in raised debit card interchange fees. Merchants who specialize in these low-value transactions are now looking for ways to minimize the impact on their profitability.

U.S. E-commerce: Mobile Devices and Alternative Payments Bring Retail Online

New research from Mercator Advisory Group highlights e-commerce developments and trends

Procure to Pay: Moving from Paper to Electronic Formats Is a Confusing Process

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...

A Moment in Time

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...