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Adobe (and Other Un-named Offenders): I Expect Better

by Patricia McGinnis

May 23, 2011

Like millions of Internet users, I often useAdobe Flash®Player for viewing online videos. One day three weeksago, the familiar "update" ...

Mobile's Pressure on Traditional Retailing is Real

by George Peabody

May 20, 2011

As I talk with merchants, processors, and othersin the industry, I sense the perhaps wistful desire to limit thescope of ...

Transparency Needs to be a Guiding Principle for Prepaid

by Ben Jackson

May 20, 2011

The recent subpoenas by the Florida Attorney general to major prepaid cardproviders again highlight the need for transparency in theprepaid ...

The Prepaid Card Industry Faces A Multi-Front Battle that Begins in Florida

by Mercator Advisory Group

May 20, 2011

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced this week that she is investigating five prepaid card providers to see whether or ...

Prepaid Cardholders Should Shop Around

by Ben Jackson

May 20, 2011

Over the past few weeks, there have been anumber of articles and research reports about the value of prepaidcards to ...

Really? AT&T Claims Isis Retreat Partly Due to Durbin

by George Peabody

May 19, 2011

The Durbin Amendment has been agenerator of unintended consequences since its initial appearanceon December 2, 2009. In the intervening 17 ...

Unemployment Prepaid Cards Come Under Scrutiny

by Ben Jackson

May 19, 2011

The National Consumer Law Center has recentlypublished a review of unemployment prepaid card programs across the40 states that offer the ...

Card Rewards: Are You Being Engaged?

by Ken Paterson

May 18, 2011

It seems industry observers are just waiting fora major decline in credit and debit rewards programs, the formerdue to portfolio ...

The Apple Rumor Mill Rounds on Square

by George Peabody

May 18, 2011

When you're the most valuable brand on theplanet you attract an enormous cadre of professional rumor chewers,prognosticators, and one-cup-of-tea leaf ...