LAUNCH ALERT: Blue Sky Prepaid Card Launched
Blue Sky Prepaid Mastercard card is here. The Blue Sky Prepaid Mastercard is the brand new general spend prepaid credit card bought to you by the Blue Sky Card Solutions team. A general spend sterling prepaid Mastercard, the Blue Sky card comes with a range of innovative functionality and features built in to include SMS […]
Prepaid Cards Overtake Travellers Cheques at Travelex
New figures reveal prepaid currency cards are outselling travellers’ cheques by 70 to 1 as Brits get more savvy when it comes to overseas spending, according to Travelex. Additional research commissioned by Mastercard forecast the Europe prepaid market to swell by 27 per cent each year. Prepaid currency cards, developed to offer more convenient and […]
First Australian Dollar Mastercard Prepaid Card Launched by PFS
In anticipation of the estimated 664,000 British nationals visiting Australia* annually, Prepaid Financial Services (PFS) have launched Europe’s first Mastercard Prepaid Travel Card in Australian Dollars (AUD). The Australian Dollar Travel Card offers secure, cost effective and convenient foreign currency and is available directly to consumers (www.prepaidfinancialservices.com) or through businesses to their staff or consumer base. […]
Travelex Supports British Judo With Prepaid Credit Cards
Travelex has stepped in to help the 21-strong British judo team manage their travel expenses during the imminent World Championships taking place from 9th – 13th September and beyond. The foreign currency provider has issued members of the Olympic hopeful team with Travelex Corporate Cash Passport to trial the system for future travel expense needs. The […]
Travelex Launches New Prepaid Ad Campaign
Foreign exchange specialist, Travelex, is to launch a new ad campaign on travel money; the first above-the-line activity the currency giant has produced in over five years. The ads, commencing on 2nd August and promoting the Cash Passport prepaid Mastercard® currency card, centres on the ‘Avoid getting stung on holiday’ theme supported by the strap […]
Prepaid365 Awards 2010 Winners Announced
Prepaid365, the UK’s leading prepaid card comparison site, announced the winners of the Prepaid365 Prepaid Card Awards 2010 recognising best in class prepaid credit card providers in the UK across different categories such as Money Transfer, Travel, Payroll, Gaming, General Spend, Online Shopping and Youth. In the second edition of the awards, subject matter experts […]
Prepaid365 Awards 2010 Call for Entries Announced
Prepaid365, the UK’s leading prepaid card comparison site, announced the second edition of the Prepaid365 Awards 2010 yesterday. The awards aim to recognise the best in category service provider for different categories as well as highlight a few worthy runners ups in each of those categories. In the second edition of these prestigious web awards, […]
BaBeeCard Prepaid Mastercard Spend up by 50%
BaBeeCard, the prepaid Mastercard® card created specifically to help mothers and families manage their finances, announced that the average spend on the BaBeeCard prepaid cards had risen by 50% over the last 12 months heralding the growing awareness of prepaid credit cards and the shift towards prepaid cards as a preferred method of payment. The […]
Financial Services Authority takes over Bank and Building Society Regulation
As of November 1, the Banking Code Standards Board will no longer be responsible for the regulation of the way banks and building societies do business with their customers. This job of regulation has now been taken over by the the Financial Services Authority (FSA). According to the FSA, anyone that has a bank account […]
Phones4u Launches Prepaid Mastercard Cards
Phones4u launches prepaid Mastercard cards by teaming up with Newcastle Building Society and Mastercard to release the Escape Prepaid Mastercard and the Neon Prepaid Mastercard. Unlike the fee-free cards that 02 recently announced for their customers, the Phones4U cards carry charges. The Escape Mastercard Prepaid Card and the Neon Mastercard Prepaid Card will not only […]