Research

The Cost of Payment Acquiring vs. the Cost of Card Acceptance: Acquirer Pricing Strategies Post-Durbin

Durbin Amendment Final Rules: Analyzing Settling Dust

EU Data Protection and Privacy: Conflicts Simmer and Risks Grow

Boston, MA -- The second of Mercator's reports on data protection and privacy concentrates on the practical challenges of compliance with European privacy law, highlighting the significant differences between U.S. practice and European expectati...

NFC 3.0, Identity, and Security as a Service

The founding vision of NFC payments was simply "tap and pay" at a contactless payment terminal. The world's gotten a lot more complex since then. As a flexible platform enabling multiple use cases, it's time to re-envision NFC's role in the new ...

U.S. Credit Cardholders: Waiting For A Rebound

U.S. Credit Cardholders: Waiting For A Rebound - Cross Tabs

U.S. Credit Cardholders: Waiting For A Rebound

Solving the Micropayments Problem

Eighth Annual Closed Loop Prepaid Market Assessment

Durbin Amendment Is Not The End Of Prepaid, But Providers Have Work To Do

While prepaid cards can gain exemption from the interchange caps of the Durbin Amendment to the Dodd-Frank Act, program managers still have their work cut out for them and decisions to make, when running a compliant program in the new environmen...