Debit Card News

Three Different Kinds of Valentine’s Cards

Feb 13, 2012 — Whether you already use a prepaid debit card, intend to get one or have given cards to your family, Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to check them out. There are web resources available for you to contrast and compare the many facets of prepaid cards. For those of you not sure where to start, here’s our take on three outstanding products available today.
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Author: Tracy |
February 13th, 2012

Another Celebrity Prepaid Card Endorsement Coming Out

Feb 02, 2012 – In a recent Associated Press release, Mango Financial, the innovators behind the Mango MasterCard prepaid card announced a multi-year, celebrity-focused marketing campaign featuring popular Latino George Lopez. Lopez is known for his cross-media talents in stand up comedy, radio, TV, books and film. Mango, no doubt wants to utilize Lopez’ popularity with the Hispanic market and their attachment to the prepaid industry.
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Author: Tracy |
February 2nd, 2012

AccountNow and Ready Financial Team Up to Provide Quick Tax Refunds

Jan 30, 2012 – AccountNow, Inc. and Ready Financial recently announced their merger. Ready Financial merged into AccountNow, Inc. and the company now offers both the AccountNow(R) and READYdebit(R) line of prepaid debit cards. AccountNow is using the merger to bring additional value to their cardholders, and recently announced that READYdebit cardholders will be able to file their tax returns online thanks to a partnership with ezTaxReturn.com.
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Author: Tracy |
January 30th, 2012

Prepaid Card to be Released in February Targeting Older Americans

Jan 27, 2012 – Yesterday, an alliance offering a new affordable prepaid debit card, the AARP Foundation Prepaid MasterCard, was announced in Monrovia, CA. The partnership between the AARP Foundation and Green Dot Corporation said that they are honing in on assisting those Americans that are approaching retirement age with a flexible, lower cost prepaid card. This comes in response to a new federal law requiring that all beneficiaries of Social Security will be paid electronically by March 1, 2013.
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Author: Tracy |
January 27th, 2012

New O2USA Prepaid MasterCard Offered to Unbanked and Underbanked in February 2012

Jan 24, 2012 – Today, O2 Secure Wireless (Pink Sheets: OTOW) released that it will be making available February 1st, a prepaid debit MasterCard designed to serve the growing underbanked and unbanked populations throughout the world. With the rise in unemployment and economic strain across the globe, a larger percentage of the population is turning to prepaid products like the O2USA Prepaid Master Card as a financial tool instead of traditional banking relationships.
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Author: Tracy |
January 24th, 2012

Prepaid Spotlight: Pink ACE Elite Visa

Jan 09, 2011 — As the New Year begins with a bang, GetDebit.com would like to bring to light a unique prepaid product that gives back to the community. ACE Cash Express provides several prepaid card options and one of their best is the Pink Elite Visa prepaid card. The Pink Elite Visa is unique in that for every purchase you make a portion is donated to the National Breast Cancer Foundation (up to $350,000 per year) to fight breast cancer. What a great cause to support!
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Author: Tracy |
January 9th, 2012

InteliSpend Introduces Their New Expense Prepaid Visa Business Card

Jan 06, 2011 — Earlier this week, InteliSpend Prepaid Solutions announced the arrival of the Expense Visa Prepaid Card that offers corporate clients the ability to more aptly manage business expense spending as well as provide a more fluid administrative process. With over 10 years of B2B prepaid and business expense expertise, InteliSpend continues to bring meaningful advances to their customers through self-serve and custom program solutions.
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Author: Tracy |
January 6th, 2012

New Year’s Resolution: Understand the Prepaid Debit Card

Jan 05, 2011 — Total dollar figures loaded annually on prepaid debit cards are fast approaching the $500 billion mark. As a financial tool, the prepaid card has earned its place among bank debit cards, credit cards and paper checks and doesn’t appear to be losing ground anytime soon. Remarkably, there is still a large portion of the population that doesn’t understand how prepaid cards work beyond that of a merchant gift card. Let us fill you in.
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