Understanding the Russian Payment Market Webinar

MAYNARD, Mass. - July 30, 2013 - PRLog -- As one of the fast-growing BRIC countries, Russia has many industries worthy of closer examination, and the domestic payment market is no exception. Though Russian consumers still overwhelmingly use cash as their primary payment instrument, in recent years they have increasingly turned to payment cards.

Payment cards are not the only fast-growing payment segment in the Russian market. Strong growth has occurred as well in bank branch and ATM deployment, point-of-sale (POS) terminal rollouts, and e-commerce which is comparable to growth in the leading international payment markets.

Join Tristan Hugo-Webb, analyst for Mercator Advisory Group's International Advisory Service and the primary author of the recently released researchreport titled Introduction to the Russian Payment Market, for a 60-minute webina (https://mercatorevents.webex.com/mercatorevents/onstage/g.php?d=661611983&t=a)ron this insightful report. The latest in a series of Mercator Advisory Group reports examining international markets, the insightful report discussed in this webinar analyzes the past, present, and future of the payment segments in the Russian market.

Date and Time:  Thursday, August 15, 2013 at 1:00 p.m.  

Webinar Highlights include:

An examination of trends in payment card, banking, merchant, and e-commerce segments between 2007 and 2011

Projections for the Russian payment market segments in the near future (2013, 2015, and 2020)

A comparison of the Russian payment market to that of other countries, including Brazil, India, and China

A summary of selected Russian payment industry leaders and their role in the market

For professionals and firms looking at international payment markets, this webinar will provide a broad, yet comprehensive primer to the Russian payment market and the potential and challenges that exist today and in the future.

This informative 60-minute webinar complements the recent Mercator Advisory Group research report concerning the Russian market by providing a review of key findings, exploring important payment segments more closely, as well as commenting on any new developments that have since occurred since the report’s publication.

Register:  https://mercatorevents.webex.com/mercatorevents/onstage/g.php?d=661611983&t=a

About Mercator Advisory Group
Mercator Advisory Group is the leading independent research and advisory services firm exclusively focused on the payments and banking industries. We deliver pragmatic and timely research and advice designed to help our clients uncover the most lucrative opportunities to maximize revenue growth and contain costs. Our clients range from the world's largest payment issuers, acquirers, processors, merchants and associations to leading technology providers and investors. Mercator Advisory Group is also the publisher of the online payments and banking news and information portal PaymentsJournal.com (http://www.paymentsjournal.com/).