Prepaid cards

Commuters in San Francisco can now use their transportation-fare card to pay for parking in city garages.

Davis and Henderson's planned $1.2 billion acquisition of Harland Financial Solutions marks the Canadian technology developer's biggest push into the U.S. market and its first foray into payments processing.

KeyBank has selected FIS to provide prepaid card technology to power a suite of payroll card services.

Payroll card provider ADP is updating its technology to provide greater visibility into users' financial health at a time when payroll cards face fresh scrutiny over costs to users.

London-based Kalixa Payments Group is offering consumers in Europe a mobile wallet based on DeviceFidelity's Near Field Communication technology.

Total System Services, having completed its purchase of the prepaid card marketer NetSpend, has raised its full-year earnings guidance.

American Express Co. will be discontinuing its Deals and Offers program on the Serve digital wallet on August 12.

The Affordable Care Act's individual mandate will hasten individual responsibility for health care procurement and payments, making mobile apps increasingly important.

Green Dot Corp.'s GoBank account is being featured on Lifetime's Project Runway.

Notwithstanding recent media criticism, there is little doubt that these products offer a better alternative for unbanked and underbanked consumers who would otherwise use a cash-based system to manage their finances.

Financial Prepaid Services (PFS), a MasterCard prepaid partner, has introduced the SmartPayCard Prepaid MasterCard in Slovenia, the first domestically issued prepaid MasterCard in that country.

Prepaid card provider epay has rolled out Google Play gift cards at more than 5,600 food and discount stores in Germany.

Cloud payment processor i2c Inc. and Heartland Payment Systems have teamed to provide prepaid card processing services. Their first collaboration is to add features to the National Restaurant Association’s Edge prepaid card program.

Google requires the early adopters who buy its Google Glass headset to purchase it using Google Wallet. What are the implications for Google's payments strategy?

The prepaid card market must undergo significant consolidation in the future because more prepaid card processors exist than are needed to serve the prepaid issuers and program managers in the U.S., new Aite Group research finds.

How is a gift card different from a prepaid card?