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Federal, state, and local governments haverecently sought to replace checks with prepaid cards for a varietyof applications and benefits disbursements....

Almost every day, one of the tech news oraggregation sites like Tech Crunch or Tech Meme features a storyabout a...

No surprise, privacy in the job-huntingrealm is a thing of the past. Officially, the Federal TradeCommission (FTC) announced last month...

In a recent article, "The Coming Wave ofNon-Credit Cards" Time Magazine introduces its readers to the newAmerican Express Reloadable Prepaid...

NPR listeners may have recently heard a reporton the frequent use of Bob Dylan lyrics in legal rulings, with thetop...

Are We Listening?No one wants to listen to a Cassandra. AndChicken Little is easy to dismiss. But if you've been...

Over the past two and a half years, theFederal Deposit Insurance Corporation has been conducting pilotsaimed at helping banks develop...

June 8, 2011 - the day the Senate voted onthe bill to delay implementation of the Durbin Amendment - will...

There were no headlines that I noticed whenthe Fed published its Q1/2011 stats on credit card delinquencies.Yes, the stats are...

In its S-1 filed on June 2, Groupon reveals thatas of March 31, it has 83.1 million subscribers and 56,781merchants....