NEW YORK, Dec. 22, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In January 2011, the Auriemma Consulting Group (ACG) introduced The Debit Report (TDR). During its first year of publication, TDR maintained a laser-like focus on debit card usage, demographics, and the impact of the Durbin Amendment. ACG's publications have always kept pace with changes in the payments industry and consistent with this objective, we are broadening TDR's research focus to include prepaid cards as well as emerging and growing payment methods (including mobile, P2P, ACH, etc.).
As part of this expanded research focus, the report will continue following debit usage and demographic changes, but will be re-named The ACG Payments Report. The new name helps to communicate the expanded research focus, and ACG believes the new ACG Payments Report will meet a variety of unmet research needs for reliable data on consumer payments. Aside from traditional retail banks, other parties served by the new report will include mobile carriers, technology startups, payments networks, the investment community and others.
Subscribers to The ACG Payments Report receive much more than a syndicated market research report, they also get access to a research panel they can utilize without the need to field a proprietary consumer survey. All ACG research reports feature access to its flexible research platform which is designed to work around the needs of subscribers. As a result, we regularly explore a variety of topics and trends and can also quickly generate data that captures the consumer's point of view on a number of different payment methods, none of which can be found elsewhere.
About Auriemma Consulting Group
Auriemma Consulting Group (ACG) is a full-service management consulting firm serving the payments, lending, and retail industries since 1984. The ACG Payments Report is a syndicated market research study of consumers on the topic of payments conducted each quarter in the U.S. market. ACG also conducts research in the credit card space and has published a monthly report known as Cardbeat® since 1995, which is also published on a quarterly basis in the U.K. With offices in New York and London, ACG consultants are experienced practitioners, drawn from the credit card, private label, auto finance, mortgage, and retail banking industries that we serve.
For more information, please contact Dr. Patricia A. Sahm at 212-323-7000 or patricia.sahm@acg.net.
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