Research

New Research Sizes the Problem of First-Party Fraud in the United States and Examines Countermeasures

Social networks provide a direct connection between consumers and organizations like no other medium before. This Mercator Advisory Group research note analyzes the social presence of the 15 largest U.S. financial institutions on Twitter, highli...

Georgia state legislators quietly passed a law that allows merchant acquirer limited purpose bank charters, another important win for the acquiring side of the payments market. This viewpoint addresses two questions: Now that some acquirers are ...

The regulation for prepaid payments varies significantly across countries from nearly nonexistent to strict and broad, posing a challenge for companies expanding into international markets. This research note provides some high-level overviews a...

Brazil Payment Card Market Update

Seventh report from Mercator Advisory Group's 2011 CustomerMonitor Survey Series probes consumer attitudes and mobile banking usage

Conventional wisdom in the card payments space is that fraud hurts us all -- banks, processors, merchants, and consumers. This virtual axiom is often invoked by pundits and experts in the immediate aftermath of card data breaches, such as the re...

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.

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

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...