A multi-currency prepaid card from A&LUnited Kingdom | 06/10/2008
A multi-currency prepaid card from A&L

Alliance & Leicester, in partnership with Indigosolutions, is offering its customers a prepaid card, which they can use abroad to withdraw cash in ATMs or to make payment at retailers, in dollars and euros.

Paysafecard.com group - Lessons learned from operating a prepaid consumer programmeAustria | 12/09/2008
Paysafecard.com group - Lessons learned from operating a prepaid consumer programme

Michael Müller, Chief Executive Officer
Paysafecard.com

Conference: 2008 Cards & Payments Conference
Prepaid cards: implications for the corporate and public sectorsUnited Kingdom | 12/09/2008
Prepaid cards: implications for the corporate and public sectors

Jim Wadsworth, Executive Director
JPMorgan

Conference: 2008 Cards & Payments Conference
Prepaid card industry surveyFrance | 12/09/2008
Prepaid card industry survey

Pascal Burg, Director in charge of the Paris Office
Edgar, Dunn & Company

Conference: 2008 Cards & Payments Conference
A British card which validates the customer’s ageUnited Kingdom | 21/04/2008
A British card which validates the customer’s age

The UreLife card, which has recently been launched in London, is a pre-paid Visa card which includes a new functionality approved by the authorities: proof-of-age verification of the cardholder.

A multi-currency prepaid credit cardUnited Kingdom | 11/03/2008

Travelex is launching a prepaid credit card which will enable holders to pay for purchases or withdraw cash in three currencies: dollars, euros and pounds sterling.

A travel money cardUnited Kingdom | 03/08/2007
Barclays has recently launched a new reloadable card that can be used throughout the world, wherever Visa cards are accepted.
Dresdner Bank has launched a prepaid cardGermany | 06/07/2007
Dresdner Bank has become the first major German bank to offer a prepaid credit card. The “Dresdner Prepaid-Kreditkarte” is a Visa card which can be used in a million ATMs across 170 countries.
Wal-Mart wants to launch a prepaid cardUnited States | 11/06/2007
Wal-Mart is to offer its customers a new means of payment: the Wal-Mart Money Card, a prepaid card aimed in particular at customers who do not have a bank account...
Tfl has abandoned plans to extend the use of its Oyster travel cardUnited Kingdom | 29/05/2006
Transport for London (TfL) has failed to reach an agreement with its financial partners to add a contactless payment function to its Oyster travel payment card...
A. Poletto, Consum.it

"We covered ourselves from possible mounting credit risk by decreasing our level of acceptance for new applications (...) to market level"

Heinz Gruber, Denzel Bank

"For 2012, we expect the consumer lending market to be pretty stable"

Song Wen Chang, B. Of B. CFC

"The central bank is looking to ease the short-term credit crunch. This represents a great opportunity for consumer finance."

G. Georgakopoulos, Bancpost

"Demand for consumer lending remains luke-warm"

Virginia Moreira, B. Intermedium

"In the coming ten years, I would expect at least 40% of credit and consumption operations to be digitalized"

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