Gift cards and cash are the top two gifts consumers want to receive this holiday season and prepaid cards continue to grow in popularity, sometimes as an alternative to a checking account and sometimes as a type of gift card.

Banks are squeezing out customers with higher costs and fewer locations. Several large midwestern banks are scaling down the number of branches the...

To help addicts stay clean and sober, one prepaid card company is hoping to help them avoid a gateway drug: cash. A new card called Next Step, sch...

One midwestern bank is returning free checking to the menu. TCF Bank, which has 430 branches in eight states, announced this week that free checki...

The poorest consumers, currently living off the financial grid, may soon be pulled back onto it in an unexpected way. Experian, a data collection a...

Louise Collis likes to ride her bike around the Clarendon Hills suburb of Chicago. What she doesn't like is change -- as in spare change jangling in h...

American Express is willing to farm for money. On Tuesday, the financial services company announced the launch of a new FarmVille-branded prepaid ...

Gone are the days when credit card companies set up tables with free candy and other gifts to get new college students to sign up for their services. ...

JPMorgan Chase wants it all, catering to everyone from the richest customers who provide hefty returns on deposits to the poorest who are willing to p...

Increasingly shut out of traditional bank accounts, more Americans are turning to prepaid debit cards often notorious for their high fees. Prepaid ...