Prepaid

Life and Its Impact on Maintaining Portfolio Stability of Fixed Size With an average card life of 90 days, maintaining a stable card base of 50,000 cards required the addition of 22,200 new cards a month. When the card base is 100,000, a stable card base required recruiting 44,400 new cardholders a month, and at an initial base of 200,000 the requirement to achieve stability went to 88,900 new cardholders every month. For more information about this particular report, visit Mercator Advisory Group here.

Mercator Advisory Group's Closed-Loop Prepaid Card Taxonomy Mercator Advisory Group broke down the closed-loop prepaid card space into 11 categories and 27 market segments. For more information about this particular report, please visit Mercator Advisory Group's Prepaid Advisory Service here.

Open-Loop and Closed-Loop Prepaid Market Segments, U.S., 2003-2011 This graph shows growth from 2003 to 2011 for the entire prepaid market, both open- and closed-loop solutions. The historical data includes only those segments that are still active. In the past year, the total prepaid market grew by 18%, from $410.8 billion in 2010 to $483.2 billion in 2011, an increase of $72.4 billion. For more information about this particular report, please visit Mercator Advisory Group's Prepaid Advisory Service here.

Total Load Placed On Open Money and Financial Services Cards In U.S. 2007 – 2013 The Prepaid Financial Services market grew from $19.5 billion in 2008 to $28.6 billion in 2009 for a relatively modest year-over-year growth rate of 47 percent. In the Prepaid Forecast report, Mercator Advisory Group predicts that the Prepaid Financial Services segment will achieve a Compounded Annual Growth Rate of 63 percent, reaching $202 billion in 2013. For more information about this particular report, please visit Mercator Advisory Group's Prepaid practice here.