Bluebird is not the Last Word in Prepaid
Ever since Wal-Mart and American Expressannounced they would start selling a low-fee, reloadable prepaidcard in early October, the industry and...
FinCEN Rules On Declaring Prepaid Cards Still Need Work
Last year the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network proposed rules to require travelers to declare the value of prepaid cards they...
Scanning Prepaid Cards At The Border Won’t Stop Money Laundering
An article in a recent issue of PayBeforedescribes how U.S. customs agents will soon start testing prepaidscanners in order to...
United Nations Agency Recommends that Postal Systems Offer Accounts
The Universal Postal Union, an agency of the United Nations, has called on central banks in countries around the world...
Old Habits Swipe Contactless Adoption From Payments
Although contactless payments have beenaround for years and offer a speedier way to pay than swiping acard, they have yet...
Prepaid Transit Applications Show How Prepaid Can Go Beyond Cards
With recent advances in technology, thepayments business in general, and prepaid in particular, is movingbeyond its card focus. One area...
Mercator Advisory Group Releases U.S. Closed-Loop Prepaid Cards Market Assessment
The Ninth Annual U.S. Closed-Loop Prepaid Cards Market Assessment report is the second of the annual trilogy of closely followed...
Mobile Phones and Multi-Merchant Prepaid Cards – A Perfect Match?
Prepaid cards primarily come in two types:closed-loop cards that can only be used at one issuer's stores, andopen-loop cards that...
Why Gift Cards Will Never Be Entirely Digital or Entirely Dominant
Technophiles like to predict that plasticwill disappear and that all gift cards will be purchased, sent,received, and redeemed via computers...
Prepaid Cards and the Napoleonic Code
Consumer advocacy groups and governmentregulators seem to judge the prepaid industry using a different setof standards compared with other available...
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