prepaid cards

Penny auction site YouNeverLose.com takes the risk out of paying to bid: Crazy as it sounds, you "gamble" without the possibility of losing your money.

CardHub.com recently put five of the most well-known prepaid card issuers under the microscope to see how useful their products are based on fees and features. Which offers the best deal? The answer might surprise you. But the real question is should you use a prepaid card at all.

The U.S. Treasury is getting into the prepaid debit-card business, launching a pilot program targeting 600,000 taxpayers who receive tax refunds and inviting them to receive that money on a debit card instead of a paper check. To be sure, Uncle Sam is no relation to the Kardashians, who received a...

Here we go again. Just last month, we told you how the Kardashian-branded prepaid debit card -- the one with a nearly $100 fee for a year's worth of use -- was yanked after an indignant attorney general threatened to open an investigation. Although this card is gone, the marketplace today resembles...

Banks have a new hot-and-heavy love affair going -- with prepaid debit cards. As we've pointed out, banks stand to lose a lot of money due to new debit-card regulations, and that's on top of the money they lost when the government stepped in and put the kibosh on a lot of fees and rate hikes via...

The Federal Reserve seems to be in a never ending game of Whac-a-Mole with the banks that issue credit cards. In October the agency had to roll out clarifications to its regulations on credit card fees after it became clear that the banks had found a way to get around the Credit Card Accountability...

If you're in the market for a new credit card, you picked the best time to go shopping. That's because the November issue of Consumer Reports has done us all a service by revealing the two worst credit cards you could get your hands on. The top spot -- and the one you want to avoid above all others...

An international calling card company that markets mainly to Latino communities agreed to refund Maryland consumers to settle allegations it sold cards short of the advertised number of minutes, state Attorney General Douglas Gansler says. Telmex USA LLC denied it violated the state's consumer...

The global economic downturn has dampened the otherwise ebullient worldwide business of consumer money transfers. So when Western Union (WU) in early February forecast sales and earnings for 2010 that were below Wall Street's consensus estimates, its stock quickly took a tumble. Trading at nearly...

Spending on private label store gift cards is projected to fall by 7% this year, as consumers tighten budgets in reaction to a weakened economy. Gift givers are also getting nervous about what retailers will have on the shelves after the holidays, as stores move to reduce inventory. General purpose...