Compliance and Regulation

COVID-19 grabs the headlines in payments these days because of the high levels of risk credit card issuers will bear...

Mercator Advisory Group thinks that the credit card industry benefited from the implementation of Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL), even...

Between the unprecedented global COVID-19 pandemic, staggering levels of unemployment, civil unrest, and particularly contentious political tensions, 2020 is truly...

Mercator Advisory Group's early view on Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) was that the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) would...

A rash of data protection regulations – including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), whose enforcement was set to begin...

Even though the deadline was extended to April 17, 2021, many fuel merchants are unprepared to meet the upcoming EMV...

Companies that move personal data from the E.U. to process that data in the U.S. now have a problem. The...

This article appears in International Banker and discusses an interesting case of fraud perpetrated by the CEO of a company...

Fees are an essential part of the payments industry. In order to exchange money between different networks or people, a...

In a continued wave of nationalism, 16 banks across Europe announced their plans to build a European-based payment network and...