The utility of prepaid cards is growing as marketers develop features that can strengthen their customer relationships. Although not a new trend, coupling ancillary features such as direct deposit, ...

Several $35 overdraft fees over a three month period left Erin Gamboa's checking account $200 in the red. With her budget too tight to absorb that and other mounting bank fees, the divorced, single ...

Prepaid card fees have plagued otherwise successful entrepreneurs and celebrity endorsers, including Suze Orman the Kardashian Sisters and Justin Bieber. But to prepaid card users, fees have left the ...

Rising fees have chased millions of people away from banks and into prepaid debit cards. In just a handful of years, prepaid cards have become the fastest-growing payment method in the U.S. Just this ...

Evan Zimmer has been writing about finance for years. After graduating with a journalism degree from SUNY Oswego, he wrote credit card content for Credit Card Insider (now Money Tips) before moving to ...

Prepaid debit cards have a devilish reputation. They're known as high-fee alternatives to debit or credit cards for consumers who can't get a checking account. But that image is on its way out.

This prepaid card boasts no fees (including foreign exchange fees) and even earns interest. We break down its other benefits and drawbacks.

According to latest numbers by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, about 14.1% of the population in the United States is under-banked. This means that millions of people may have difficulty ...

Rising fees have chased millions of people away from banks and into prepaid debit cards. In just a handful of years, prepaid cards have become the fastest-growing payment method in the United States.