Research

A new report from Mercator Advisory Group's North American PaymentsInsights survey series provides a fact-based look into changes in payment preferences in Canada throughout COVID and future adoption of mobile payment technology.

Providers of solutions for the customer relationship management of registered investment advisors will have to overcome the deployment complexities and associated costs. It’s not easy for turnkey providers to penetrate the market of larger RIAs,...

Banks and credit unions lose scale on loans as fintechs grow. New research from Mercator Advisory Group explores current trends and opportunities in installment lending for fintechs and financial institutions.

Financial institutions face an immediate need to integrate voice authentication to help protect consumers from identity fraud. In this report, Javelin outlines this need and explores consumers’ acceptance of voice biometrics and what FIs can do ...

The prepaid card industry has benefitted from significant technological advances in recent years, which serve to make prepaid offerings more secure, convenient, and appealing to consumers of all types. This viewpoint examines the most widely use...

The growth of real-time and faster payments is driving consumer demand. Mercator Advisory Group releases new research that analyses the growth and impact of faster and real-time payments in the U.S.

Two years of the coronavirus pandemic have caused tectonic shifts in the credit card industry that will have permanent effects on issuers, card networks, and all other firms involved in the space. Although the pandemic is ongoing, using the anni...

In new research, Mercator Advisory Group reports how treasury automation has accelerated during the pandemic as CFOs seek more strategic results.

As portfolio management systems continue to evolve, advisors are looking to providers to leverage new technology—such as artificial intelligence and behavioral finance models—to deliver highly customized solutions for their clients among a sea o...

Consumers are looking for better protection against fraud, and an identity protection service (IDPS) — whether bought directly from a vendor or, as Javelin Strategy & Research suggests, provided as a free or low-cost offering from a trusted inst...