Prepaid cards

London wants to export its popular open-loop contactless payment system for mass transit to other global cities, through a new licensing deal with Cubic Transportation Systems.

Starbucks Corp. is taking its highly success mobile payment app into China, a country in which consumers have quickly adopted mobile payment methods.

Uber Technologies Inc. and bitcoin startup Xapo have joined together to give consumers in Buenos Aires a new way to pay for rides after banks in Argentina’s capital began blocking debit-card charges for the ride-sharing company.

Barely 24 hours into his new role as CEO at RushCard, Ron Hynes has found the silver lining to the company's 2015 technical glitch that led the company to pay a $20.5 million settlement.

Wirecard AG has agreed to buy Citigroup’s institutional prepaid card business, giving Germany-based Wirecard its first market foothold in North America.

Two Democratic Senate Banking Committee members have asked Walmart, Green Dot, and MasterCard to explain an outage in which Walmart MoneyCard users were blocked from accessing their funds.

U.K. youth payments startup Loot hopes to widen its user base following a new $2.2 million funding round.

Prepaid cards for teens that were touted as a way to teach financial responsibility by enabling parents to share control and set spending limits, are becoming scarcer.

Her prepaid card may have been short-lived, but superstar Kim Kardashian West still has opinions about payments.

The prepaid card issuer issued conflicting statements in recent weeks as customers complained that they were unable to access their funds.

Financial services technology provider FIS is providing UnionPay prepaid cards for U.S. consumers traveling to Asia.

As more mobile apps and businesses push plastic payments to the background, they also give prepaid card accounts a chance to reclaim the spotlight.

Green Dot's embattled founder and chief executive, Steve Streit, is expected to be re-elected to the board based on preliminary voting results from its annual meeting, the company announced Monday.

Green Dot Corp.’s longest-serving directors, Timothy Greenleaf and Michael Moritz, resigned from the board hours before they were to stand for re-election as the firm’s largest shareholder wages a proxy fight.

Users of the Walmart MoneyCard, issued by Green Dot, took to social media Wednesday to complain about problems they've encountered checking balances and accessing funds. The problems come at inopportune time for Green Dot.

Green Dot Corp., the prepaid debit-card company, agreed to split the roles of chairman and chief executive officer.

RushCard has agreed to a preliminary settlement of $20.5 million to resolve thousands of customer claims that their accounts were frozen last year.

Mobile wallets may not have eliminated cash and cards, but they are becoming almost unavoidable in many retail settings. However, there are still a few areas where mobile technology is slow to arrive.

Despite having fewer prepaid cards in the market, Green Dot delivered a first quarter that exceeded its executives' expectations with $78.3 million in adjusted earnings.

Bitcoin payments company BitPay has partnered with the payments giant to launch a co-branded debit card allowing U.S. consumers to spend the digital currency at Visa merchants,