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...But prepaid cards are often more convenient and flexible which makes them a workable solution for people who may need to allow a carer to pay for day-to-day personal expenses such as food deliveries and...
...The press release announcing it was a cipher — “a new fintech start-up designed to develop and offer modern, innovative and affordable financial solutions”....
...Its new partnership with Visa will offer “virtual” prepaid debit cards to 2m people that allow Branch customers to withdraw their loans using a cash machine, even if they do not have a bank account....
...Followers of FT Alphaville’s cryptocurrency coverage may remember the tale of WaveCrest, the Gibraltar-based fintech that once did big business in cryptoland by providing prepaid crypto cards with access...
...This makes it hard to settle on ubiquitous solutions. The US industry muddled along with magnetic stripes and improvements to back-end technology....
...card solutions to industry....
...In one, the bank would issue clients with prepaid debit cards loaded up with money from their Swiss account. The client’s name did not appear on the card....
...mVisa is largely aimed at people with bank accounts, although prepaid cards are available. Mpesa users, in contrast, only need a mobile phone....
...It lost a net 256,000 of these subscribers, who are billed for their service on a recurring monthly basis and typically spend more than “prepaid” customers....
...What is less common is FireEye’s solution for shoring up its balance sheet: a “happy meal” bond offering....
...A solution to this has arrived in the form of Osper, a London-based start-up. The newly launched service comprises a prepaid debit card, which is backed by MasterCard, and a mobile app....
...Excluding revenues from the divested Advertising Solutions business unit, they grew by 2.6 per cent....
...Revenue of $31.4bn was down 1.5 per cent from a year earlier but up 0.9 per cent when adjusted for the sale of Advertising Solutions....
...The regional or prepaid companies could also be an option, such as Leap Wireless or MetroPCS....
...Fundamo and Monitise are both software solutions that help bridge some of those gaps....
...Accor Services, the prepaid services company splitting from French hotel group Accor, plans to accelerate growth by expanding in new countries and snapping up rivals, the company said....
...The joint venture, called PrePay Solutions, will be developed around Accor’s PrePay Technologies, the prepaid card unit acquired by Accor in 2007....
...“With a prepaid fee you know what your charges are as they are upfront.”...
...Indemnity commissions - prepaid to advisers at the start of a product's life and important for the cash flow of small independent financial advisers - would be abolished....
...Nokia will also expand its NetAct network management solution and install its Nokia Connect eRefill solution to enable electronic top-ups of prepaid accounts....
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