Prepaid Cards

With several factors at play, CPI Card Group Inc. is launching fresh card technology that reduces the amount of first-use plastics while providing issuers new formats and shapes for their credit, debit, and prepaid cards. Announced Wednesday, the All-in-One technology using the Secora Pay Green technology has been developed in …

With the holiday shopping season drawing closer, consumers are readying their gift card purchasing plans. Twenty-eight percent of consumers plan to purchase digital gift cards for recipients this holiday season, compared with 25% in 2023, according to a Bank of America Corp. and TSG survey of 1,007 consumers. But that …

A report from prepaid card platform Blackhawk Network indicates consumers will spend $760 on holiday-season gifting this year, flat with 2023, though they say they will spend 48% of their holiday budget through gift cards, up from 39% last year. The company surveyed 2,000 U.S. consumers in July. Pye, a hospitality point-of-sale …

The Priority Commerce unit of Priority Technology Holdings Inc. has replaced the subscription billing model for Plastiq, its bill pay service, with a transaction fee per use. It also made all formerly premium subscription tools available to all users. The Small Business Index from the processor Fiserv Inc. indicates small-business sales and total …

DailyPay Inc., a provider of technology for the fast-growing earned-wage access market, said early Thursday it will add a savings feature to its new DailyPay Visa prepaid card. The goal is to let users put aside earnings as they receive them, the New York City-based company says. The company says …

Card91, an India-based technology company, introduced a platform that offers a digital prepaid card that also functions as an ID and access card. The product is aimed at corporate employees and students. KM Malta Airlines, a new air carrier, has agreed to adopt a payments-orchestration platform from CellPoint Digital. Online-security firm DefenseStorm said it …

MyKaarma, a payments service for automobile dealers, said its surcharge service, myKaarma Surcharge, has achieved compliance with Honest Pricing Laws that have been enacted in several states, including California and New York. Surcharging allows merchants to add their cost of credit card acceptance to a bill when a customer presents a credit …

The general-purpose reloadable prepaid card market is expanding fast as audiences as diverse as the underbanked population and frequent business travelers adopt the products for their convenience and as alternatives or complements to bank accounts. Now the Serve Cash Back Card has earned a first-place finish in Javelin Strategy & …

Keys Inc., a technology platform for locksmiths, has launched the Keys Visa Spend Card, issued by Celtic Bank. The card allows locksmiths to receive earnings instantly, with processing by Stripe Inc. Payments-technology provider Transcard said it worked with the University of Tennessee Athletics Department to gain naming rights for and launch the …

Greenlight Financial Technology Inc. has partnered with Google Wallet to enable its debit card to be loaded into the Google Fitbit Ace LTE smart watch. The partnership is expected to help parents teach their children how to manage their spending and finances through Greenlight’s banking app, the company says. The …