Research

The U.S. digital gaming market is booming, spurred by the rise of e-commerce and the realities of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The industry uses a wide variety of monetization strategies, with significant opportunities for prepaid card issuers...

There is a steady acceleration of the payments infrastructure moving to cloud banking. This is not a new trend for payment fintech disruptors and some of the more forward-thinking financial institutions. Reasons behind this shifting landscape in...

New report from Mercator Advisory Group reveals a significant decline in traditional merchant acquiring over the past decade, falling to historic lows in terms of market share. This has been accompanied by an increase in “alternative” merchant s...

Next-generation fintech platforms enable automation in the private capital markets by imposing structure onto what has been an ad-hoc, high-touch workflow. In so doing, they support a more transparent, secure, and error-free experience for the a...

New report from Mercator Advisory Group’s North American PaymentsInsights survey series provides data on the effects of COVID-19 on the U.S. payments industry and the state of general-purpose reloadable cards in the U.S.

As financial institutions roll out new digital features touted as tools to help customers monitor their environmental impact and make meaningful changes, they face a host of challenges and a couple of considerable risks: Given the current qualit...

New report from Mercator Advisory Group provides data on the use of prepaid, debit, and credit cards among Canadian consumers.

Originally, Fintech was described as “new tech that seeks to improve and automate the delivery and use of financial services.”i Today, even the oldest and largest financial market participants are investing in new technology and describe themsel...

Mercator started extensive coverage of the prepaid industry in 2004 and has defined its value chain. That value chain and the technologies utilized have evolved, and Payments-as-a-Service (PaaS) providers are the result.

Payments orchestration benefits merchants in rapidly changing payments ecosystem. New research by Mercator Advisory Group looks into the future of payments processing.