Those colorful prepaid calling cards that can be found anywhere from convenience stores to the Web are bucking the downtrend in the struggling telecom industry as sales growing at double-digit rates.

Banks may not be noted for tackling new business trends, but Community Bank and Trust of Cornelia, Ga., could score big points for innovation with its prepaid telephone calling cards. J. Alton Wingate ...

Long-distance phone time. Wireless time. Residential service. The number and types of prepaid products handled by c-store employees is growing faster than a teenager's phone bill. In the store, this ...

The never-ending stream of news items tells the story: "Wawa Partners with GTS Prepaid," "7-Eleven Calls on Verizon," "EZ Mart Makes the Call." While key categories such as tobacco, gasoline, ...

Gift cards are an easy alternative to giving money, but they do come with some limitations and potential pitfalls. Here's ...

A Prepaid card works like a pay-as-you-go mobile phone contract – you top it up and use it like any other payment card until the balance reaches zero, at which point you can reload it with cash before ...

As a small-business leader, one of the best ways to acquire and retain customers is to give them good reasons to visit and revisit your business. Prepaid debit cards can help customers think of you ...

The Treasury Department already requires that so-called "money-service businesses" that issue stored-value cards register with the department and submit Suspicious Activity Reports. Greene predicts ...

Want to buy some Web content with that Icee? You might soon be in luck. On Tuesday, AT&T unveiled its PrePaid Web Cents cards, which are similar in concept to prepaid phone cards, but which let people ...

Two new prepaid debit card programs are being unveiled at some food retailers to make "plastic" money vehicles more available to those unable to obtain traditional credit or debit cards. Earlier this ...

(CN) – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to limit liability for prepaid credit cards where the financial institution has not completed its consumer verification. The CFPB has proposed ...

Following a summer of uncertainty over whether millions of uninsured consumers would be unable to buy medical insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) because they didn’t have a checking account, ...