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...
RushCard Customization Does Not Mean Lower Fees for All
On Jan. 5 UniRush LLC, the programmanager responsible for the prepaid Visa RushCard, announced thatit offers a "pick your card,...
Chasing Tax Returns With Prepaid Cards
In the past two weeks the U.S. Treasuryannounced that it is launching a prepaid card in conjunction withGreen Dot Corp....
A Borders Bankruptcy May Mean a New Round of Trouble for Gift Cards
Rumors are circulating in the press thatbookseller Borders Group may file for bankruptcy as soon as nextweek. Already the Internet...
Are Vouchers Making a Comeback?
F. Scott Fitzgerald once said that there areno second acts in American lives, but the voucher business may beproving him...
Palm Desert National Bank Sells Its Prepaid Business, But Wait, That’s Not All!
On Dec. 30, First CaliforniaFinancial Group Inc., the holding company for First CaliforniaBank, announced that it had agreed to buy...
What Is the Difference Between a Prepaid Card and a Debit Card?
As the rules that will implementthe Durbin amendment to the Dodd Frank Act come closer to beingpublished, a number of...
The Regulators Are Watching
In a published version of a talkshe gave that the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia PaymentCards Center Conference on Dec....
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