Mercator Advisory Group

• Smart Card Alliance Launches EMV Forum

  By David Morrison  |  August 12, 2012

  The Smart Card Alliance, an industry group organized to promote wider use of cards enabled with computer chips, is starting a forum designed to facilitate the implementation of cards with chips in the U.S.

• Smart Card Alliances Launches EMV Forum

  By David Morrison  |  July 31, 2012

  New group to help chip card integration.

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  NACHA Conference: Mortal Danger for Small FIs

  By Robert McGarvey  |  May 7, 2012

  BALTIMORE — Call this the loud message out of NACHA 2012: Financial institutions can choose to innovate. Or to die. And the pressures are higher on community banks and credit unions for a painful reason.

• What's In Your Mobile Wallet?: Onsite Coverage

  By Robert McGarvey  |  May 1, 2012

  BALTIMORE — NACHA panel speakers agree it's a topic that creates more buzz than it does transactions but say that's about to change.

• CSCU Paper Presents Challenging Picture of Debit Cap

  By David Morrison  |  August 6, 2010

  Almost every possible scenario for a cap on debit card interchange will result in credit unions losing significant income, according to a new report from Card Services For Credit Unions.