The Prepaid Card Brawl is About to Begin
On May 5, NetSpend Corp. announced that ithas signed a deal with Black Entertainment Television, LLC (BET) tomarket prepaid cards...
Turning Hotel Room Keys into Prepaid Cards
At the InComm Partner Alliance in Miami lastFebruary, attendees received room keys like the one pictured here.Branded by Zynga and...
When It Comes to New Payments Technology, Prepaid Will Lead the Way
According to press reports, Amazon.com Inc. islooking at developing a mobile phone payment service. It may eveninclude an NFC marketing...
Prepaid Transaction Volume Continues to Grow, Even as the Size of the Transactions Gets Smaller
Last week, the Federal Reserve released its 2010Federal Reserve Payments Study. The Study found that prepaid cardsrepresented the fastest growing...
Spare Change: A Closed-Loop Opportunity
A recent article in the New York Times shows howspare change can create an opportunity for retailers. The articledescribes how...
2011 Will Be A Watershed Year for Prepaid
Returning from the Prepaid Expo, it seems clear to me that theindustry is more optimistic about the future of the...
Bretton Woods Report Offers Good Advice for the Prepaid Industry
On March 1, research firm Bretton Woods Inc.and the Network Branded Prepaid Card Association released thereport "Analysis of Reloadable Prepaid...
Does Groupon Complicate the Closed-Loop Market?
The rise of social buying sites such asBuyWithMe, Groupon, and LiveSocial has added a new element into theclosed-loop prepaid world...
Steel Pipes and Gift Cards
In the United States, bookseller Borders Grouphas filed for bankruptcy, though it is continuing to honor its giftcards and operate...
Reaching New Markets with Prepaid Cards
When the prepaid industry thinks aboutreaching new markets with prepaid cards, the most often consideredmarket is low and moderate income...
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