NEBA Announces Consulting Relationship with Mercator Advisory Group

WAKEFIELD, MA (December 1, 2008) – NEBA announces the renewal of their consulting relationship with Mercator Advisory Group, effective January 1, 2009.

Mercator Advisory Group is a well-known leading industry expert and like NEBA, targets community banks and industry players in the United States.

“One of our goals is to provide consultative guidance to our members and this is a direct source for that assistance,” Ted Keith, CEO of NEBA said, “NEBA works closely with industry experts such as Mercator Advisory Group to provide information, insight and guidance.”

Mercator Advisory Group presents timely data on trends in the marketplace at NEBA’s annual conference; most recently on June 5, 2008 where they reviewed market factors driving the credit card marketplace and suggested strategic tools to NEBA members to help them manage their growing credit card and merchant card programs.  Mercator Advisory Group also hosts topical webinars for NEBA clients throughout the year.

About NEBA
NEBA (New England Bankcard Association) was founded in 1969 as a credit card and merchant acquiring data processing company for financial institutions in the United States and the Caribbean. NEBA provides a full range of credit card issuing, debit card, ATM driving solutions, and merchant acquiring programs for domestic and international financial institutions.

One of the twelve original regional MasterCharge associations, today NEBA has Members with programs operating in numerous states, the District of Columbia, and three countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region.

Members can choose to offer a full range of payment system products and services, including credit, debit, ATM and stored value cards, ATM processing and merchant acceptance services. Members have total control in the design and management of their respective programs, are not required to offer specific products and may elect to develop as few as one of the many payment system products NEBA supports.

NEBA has remained an FDR client since 1981, and uses a number of leading industry leading vendors to provide a wide range of payment system products and services, including Cardinal Commerce, CPI Card Group, Data Delivery Services (DDS), Discover, First Data Merchant Services, First Data Resources (FDR), First Data Solutions, Fiserv, Meta Payment Systems, Oberthur, RewardsNow, Telecheck, TSYS, and Valutec.

About Mercator Advisory Group
Mercator Advisory Group is the leading, independent research and advisory services firm exclusively focused on the payments industry.

Mercator Advisory Group delivers pragmatic and timely research and advice designed to help their clients uncover the most lucrative opportunities to maximize revenue growth and contain costs.

Clients range from the world’s largest payment issuers, acquirers, processors, and associations to leading technology providers.

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