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Ceridian Stored Value Solutions Offers New SKU Capabilities for Retailers

08.18.2010 · Posted in Gift and Loyalty Card Programs

Ceridian Stored Value Solutions, company based out in Louisville, Kentucky and a global provider of custom gift card programs for retailers with over $500 million gift cards in circulation and over $1 billion gift card transaction every year, today announced that it’s offering precision marketing and better control of payment for merchants via a new ...

eBay Launches First-Ever Rewards Program with eBay Bucks

08.13.2010 · Posted in Gift and Loyalty Card Programs

eBay, based out of San Jose, California, and the largest online marketplace in the world with millions of users using the eBay mobile app to conduct mobile commerce, announced today that the company has launched its first-ever rewards program called eBay Bucks. The service is currently only for shoppers located in the United States. If ...

Newly Proposed Rules by U.S. Treasury Department to Add Millions of Users to Prepaid Card Program

08.12.2010 · Posted in Gift and Loyalty Card Programs

According to a new article from Digital Transaction, the United States Treasury Department is looking to propose new rules that could potentially add million of users to a new government sponsored prepaid card program. The newly proposed rule to utilized prepaid debit cards is the government’s effort to cut cost associated with mailing out paper ...

Discover Financial Services and Firethorn Holdings Partner to Offer SWAGG Mobile Gift Card Application

08.11.2010 · Posted in Discover, Gift and Loyalty Card Programs

Firethorn Holdings, LLC, one of the leaders when it comes to the mobile commerce space and owned by Qualcomm Incorporated, just announced today that they have partnered with Discover Financial Services for a mobile gift card application called SWAGG that will be released in a few months (before the 2010 holiday shopping season is upon ...

Wright Express Signs Fuel Card Processing Agreement with BP International in New Zealand and Australia

08.09.2010 · Posted in Gift and Loyalty Card Programs

Wright Express and BP International today announced that the two companies have signed a fuel card processing agreement for Wright Express to processing all of the transactions for BP’s commercial fuel cards in New Zealand and Australia. Currently we don’t know more details about the agreement as the story was first released by Wright Express ...

Transaction Wireless Granted United States Patent for Mobile Gift Card Services

08.04.2010 · Posted in Gift and Loyalty Card Programs

Transaction Wireless put out a press release today announcing that the United States Government has granted the company patent for the technology that they developed for digital gift card services. The patent offers the company protection regarding the process that the company utilizes for their gift card services including some of the technical elements of ...

Bank Freedom Inks Prepaid Card Program Manager Loading Agreement with MoneyGram International

08.03.2010 · Posted in Gift and Loyalty Card Programs

Bank Freedom, based out of Newport Beach, California and owned by Prepaid Card holdings, Inc, announced today that it has inked a Prepaid Card Program agreement with MoneyGram International. MoneyGram is considered a worldwide leader when it comes to money transfer services in the payment industry. This new agreement allows for Bank Freedom to manage ...

Speedway SuperAmerica Launches Speedy Rewards Pay Card with National Payment Card Association

08.02.2010 · Posted in Gift and Loyalty Card Programs

Speedway SuperAmerica, based out of Enon, Ohio and considered one of the biggest convenience chain store operations in the United States, announced today that they have established a new partnership with National Payment Card Association (NPCA), the leading provider of branded PIN-base debit check cards in the U.S.  In an effort to take their customer ...

New Federal Rules Overhauling Gift Card Industry Kicks in Next Month

07.30.2010 · Posted in Gift and Loyalty Card Programs

August 22, 2010 is the day the new federal regulations over open-loop and closed-loop gift cards will take effect. Here are the difference between open-loop and closed-loop: open-loop are basically gift cards issued by the provider that can be used at more than one business (multiple merchants) and rules and regulations regarding open-loop are governed ...

SVM Partners with CashStar for Preferred eGifting Program

07.29.2010 · Posted in Gift and Loyalty Card Programs

CashStar has partnered with SVM (a company based out of the Chicago metro area) to distribute CashStar’s eGift cards to its business customers. SVM is one of the leaders in the retail and gasoline gift cards distribution space and so far they are the only company to offer such products from all of the major ...