Bluebird

• Fiserv to Launch Prepaid Card Mobile Deposit Capture

  April 10, 2013

  Prepaid cards can be difficult to reload, and the difficulties multiply when those funds are in the form of a check.

• Industry Shows Creativity and Lack Thereof: Editor/Publisher's Column

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  April 3, 2013

  Staring down shrinking margins and the confusing moniker “credit union,” some have gotten creative with their fields of membership. This is not a particularly new phenomenon but one that has garnered attention from an L.A. blogger who was just looking for a credit union to join. She’s had a great...

• Bluebird Gains FDIC Insurance

  By David Morrison  |  April 3, 2013

  Skeptics who saw the seeds of an eventual bank charter in the advent of American Express and Walmart had a change of heart and last week and announced that the jointly sponsored Bluebird prepaid card will carry FDIC deposit.

• Fiserv to Launch Prepaid Card Mobile Deposit Capture

  By Robert McGarvey  |  April 2, 2013

  Service will include what amounts to real-time verification of an item for deposit while enabling easy re-load of prepaid card.

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  Industry Shows Creativity and Lack Thereof: Editor/Publisher's Column

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  April 1, 2013

  Staring down shrinking margins and the confusing moniker “credit union,” some have gotten creative with their fields of membership.

• Trades Largely Quiet on Bluebird FDIC Insurance

  By David Morrison  |  April 1, 2013

  CUNA, ABA has no comment so far, NAFCU approves of prepaid cards having FDIC, ICBA objects.

• ICBA: Bluebird Cards are Checking Accounts in Disguise

  By David Morrison  |  March 27, 2013

  Community bankers lobby says it's researching how to fight Wal-Mart/Amex prepaid card's move toward offering more banking services.

• Amex, Wal-Mart Bluebird Card to Carry FDIC Insurance

  By David Morrison  |  March 26, 2013

  Checking and debit alternative to get coverage to allow government direct deposit, companies say.

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  Despite Uncertainties, CUs Should Keep Tabs on NFC

  By Natasha Chilingerian  |  February 27, 2013

  Doubt has been swirling around the potential widespread use of near field communication, or NFC, a technology that links consumers’ mobile phones to merchants’ point-of-sale terminals, enabling instant mobile payments. Apple released the iPhone 5 without an NFC chip, leaving millions of consumers out of the NFC equation.

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  Basler Uses Creativity to Make the Complex Simple: Trailblazer 40 Below

  By Myriam DiGiovanni  |  February 6, 2013

  Unless the Milwaukee Brewers come calling for him to play as shortstop, Patrick Basler, president/CEO of Chicago-based First Financial Credit Union has found his niche by helping consumers change their perceptions of credit unions.