Prepaid cards

The prepaid card marketer NetSpend is working with Western Union to launch a prepaid card this year.

American Express is expanding its cash reload network for its Serve prepaid cards through a partnership with Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

The conventional wisdom has always been: prepaid card customers will pay a fee for mobile check deposit, but bank customers won't. A year ago, Regions Bank decided to charge a fee to both audiences and has monitored the results.

Wave Crest Group Ltd. will be the prepaid program manager for Advanced Cash's new MasterCard program.

Merchants are eager to sell prepaid cards to increase revenue, and they'll be looking to expand their offerings through partnerships with prepaid providers and networks, according to a new report from Aite Group.

Prepaid program managers face a much different set of considerations than banks do when deciding how to deploy EMV-chip cards in the U.S.

Gyft, a provider of virtual gift cards, plans to launch Gyft Cloud, a marketplace for merchants to sell their own digital gift cards with Clover Station, a tablet-based point of sale system developed by First Data Corp.

Smaller businesses often have trouble finding a product designed for their size, and gift cards are no exception, says Mike Fletcher, general manager of InComm Digital Solutions.

Walmart has long been as much a force in financial services as it has been in retail. Here are some of ways Walmart and its executives have shaped - and challenged - the payments industry.

The U.S. Treasury Department paid Comerica Inc. $32.5 million to run a debit-card program for the poor and elderly that the bank had agreed to run for free, an inspector general audit found.

Green Dot Corp. has introduced a new technology for reloading a prepaid card account without using a reload card.

First Data Corp. has named Attra Infotech, a global banking and payments services provider, as the first participant in its developer license program for the VisionPlus and AccessPlus products.

Prepaid card firm CardLab has named Greg Haney as its chief operating officer.

EMV technology provider TAS Group has launched its card management software in the U.S., making an initial deal to integrate with Green Dot's reloadable prepaid card network.

JetPay Corp. is providing employees in its payroll services department with a money-access prepaid Visa card as the first phase of a planned national rollout of the new card.

Riders on Chicago Transit Authority buses and elevated trains will make all payments with the Ventra transportation card starting July 1, the CTA announced this week.

SelectCore, a Canadian company which specializes in prepaid products and services, has signed a five-year agreement to provide the online marketing firm Adbrokers with prepaid MasterCards to deliver commissions.

As city governments seek out new payments technology, they may show less interest in standalone products.

The people who guide tourists to the many attractions of Las Vegas will have the option to be rewarded with a prepaid Visa card, replacing a system of using cash and checks to pay commissions.

Visa Inc. is deploying a classic fraud prevention model to combat the growing sophistication of prepaid card fraud.