Research

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

Solving the Micropayments Problem

Eighth Annual Closed Loop Prepaid Market Assessment

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...

Fighting for Position: The Mobile Wallet Wars

The global remittance market is slowly recovering from the economic downturn. But the trend differs across regions as the pace of recovery in sender nations varies. As the remittance market recovers, new distribution channels and settlement appr...

A cease and desist order from the Office of Thrift Supervision against Meta Bank may set the floor of regulatory expectations for issuers of prepaid cards.

EMV is, at last, coming to the USA. The sitting duck in the global payments pond will become the more swan-like global security framework that will make counterfeit cards much harder to create. Visa's active encouragement of EMV contact and cont...