What shapes consumer transactions and payment technologies, and where is it going?

Any conventional wisdom about payments—how they’re made, the currencies being used, the cards presently in favor—doesn’t last long before the next wave of technology, innovation, and regulation. Javelin’s analysts conduct research at the forefront of payments, identifying the emerging trends for financial services companies and payments providers and offering insight into how they can best position themselves not just for what is current but also for what is coming.

Payments Research

Reports

Merchant Mobile Wallets: Mobile Payments in Action

  • Javelin Report
  • Date: April 12, 2016
  • Author(s): Joseph Walent
  • Research Topic(s): Emerging
Cracking the code to motivate U.S. consumers to adopt mobile wallets Mercator Advisory Group research describes opportunity for merchant payment services providers in the mobile payments market

Retailer Bankruptcies: Are Gift Card Holders Just Another Class of Creditor

  • Impact Note
  • Date: March 28, 2016
  • Author(s): Ben Jackson
  • Research Topic(s): Prepaid
Are gift card holders out of luck if a retailer goes bankrupt? Research from Mercator Advisory Group examines what happens when gift card issuers go bankrupt.

The Future of Payments: Join the Real-Time Revolution

  • Complimentary Webinar
  • Date: March, 2016
  • Author(s): Michael Moeser
  • Research Topic(s): Tech & Infrastructure
What does Faster Payments mean to your financial institution and your customers? Join us as we explore how faster payments can be used to give your customers greater convenience, heightened security, and total flexibility over managing their fin...

Affluent Consumers Respond to Credit Card Rewards with More Than Card Loyalty

This report will explore the demographic profile of affluent consumers, present their banking and payment behaviors, and identify ways that banks and payment companies can earn — and keep — their loyalty

Commercial Cards in Europe: Stagnating or Growing?

Which way will commercial cards in Europe go?New research from Mercator Advisory Group examines the potential for commercial credit cards in Europe

Javelin’s S.C.O.R.E Model Highlights Bank Opportunity To Take Lead In Mobile Wallets

Five years ago, high-income, digitally forward bank customers adopted the next major engagement channel: mobile banking. Today, these same customers are setting a new trend with mobile wallet adoption. The pace so far has been set by Apple and G...

Exploring the European Payment Gateway Opportunity

  • Impact Note
  • Date: March 17, 2016
  • Author(s): Raymond Pucci
  • Research Topic(s): Credit, Global, Merchant
E-commerce sales driving expansion of European payment gateways market Mercator Advisory Group releases research on the status, trends, and promising future of European payment gateways

Tomorrow’s Target Customers for Prepaid Cards

Join Javelin as we answer these questions and examine who among giant banks, credit unions, regional banks and community banks are more likely to offer prepaid cards to their customers.

Payroll Cards in the United States: A Balancing Act for Providers

  • Javelin Report
  • Date: March 3, 2016
  • Author(s): Ben Jackson
  • Research Topic(s): Prepaid
Prepaid loads continue to grow as individual segments struggle New research from Mercator Advisory Group explains the payroll card market and its stakeholders.

2016 Annual U.S. Debit Rewards Review with U.K. Comparison

  • Javelin Report
  • Date: February 23, 2016
  • Author(s): Sarah Grotta
  • Research Topic(s): Debit, Global
Debit rewards programs are available to most checking account customers, both in the U.S. and the U.K. Mercator Advisory Group releases research on trends in consumer checking account ownership and market forces affecting debit card rewards

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