Prepaid cards

Across the globe, many different populations have distinct reasons for being unbanked. To reach these audiences, mainstream financial companies are discovering approaches that wouldn't be possible in the U.S.

The prepaid card issuer is attracting customers who are more inclined to seek it out through the app store.

As the gig economy and prepaid cards draw more people into mainstream banking, the card providers are increasingly competing with one another instead of simply moving people away from cash.

The partnership PayPal announced last year with Samsung Pay has come to fruition, with PayPal rolling out a new capability enabling its users to make purchases at any store that accepts cards via Samsung Pay.

The e-commerce giant is muscling its way into a number of businesses that banks have long dominated.

For all the hype around prepaid, Netspend's new president, Kelley Knutson, is convinced that there won't be much talk about the "prepaid industry" in another 10 years.

As the chief executive of Green Dot Bank, Mary Dent’s career has taken many turns to get to where she is today — from lawyer to executive to board member and, finally, to CEO. But one specific piece of advice stands out from early on in her career.

Susanne Steidl loves building things, which suits her job as chief product officer for Wirecard, where she continualsly develops new use cases for digital payments in everything from the gig economy to global travel.

As CEO and president of Blackhawk Network, Talbott Roche has presided over some significant changes in the industry, notably the growth of third-party retailing of gift cards, but this wasn’t necessarily an easy sale to skeptical retailers.

The major prepaid card issuer agreed to the penalty to settle allegations that it had charged higher fees than what was disclosed to customers.