The debit card is completely free, with no card fees, monthly charges, or inactivity fees. The prepaid card will cost you $4.95 a month to access unlimited transactions.

Prepaid credit cards serve as a convenient spending option without affecting credit scores. They require preloaded funds and ...

You can usually spend only as much as you load onto a prepaid card, making overspending less likely than with a credit or debit card. You have several methods to load money onto a prepaid card.

Prepaid cards let you make purchases with money you’ve loaded onto the card, instead of drawing from a bank account or line ...

Prepaid debit cards are an alternative way to access and spend money by using a physical card, mobile app, website or electronic payment. Check out some of the best prepaid debit cards available -- ...

Prepaid cards are issued by banks and financial service companies, and you only have access to the money you load onto them. You aren’t borrowing money or paying a deposit that acts as collateral.

You can load a PayPal prepaid card through instant transfers. Being a PayPal-to-PayPal transaction, there is no fee for the service. You can also load another card that is connected to your ...

Cards co-branded with major credit card issuers are also good anywhere their credit cards are accepted, and because you can load it with cash, you don't need a bank account to load the card.

The Maynard, Mass., firm measured the growth opportunity for the load value on prepaid cards based on demographic and economic factors in different countries, using actual U.S. prepaid card load ...

And this year alone, Americans are expected to load more than $200 billion onto prepaid cards, with 13 percent of the country using them.

The year 2012 could mark a milestone for the prepaid card industry. That's when load volume on so-called open-loop, or general-purpose, prepaid cards could surpass load volume on closed-loop cards, if ...