TransCard – a leading provider of prepaid debit card solutions branded with MasterCard®, Discover® Network and STAR associations – and San Diego-based Socialwise, Inc. (“Socialwise”), a wholly owned subsidiary of ideaEDGE, Inc. (IDEA.OB), are collaborating to offer a prepaid debit card for online gift giving to be released in early 2009.
TransCard has developed a [...]

Follow these guidelines from Kiplinger.com and your holiday shopping experience will be safer and less stressful.
1. Always use your home computer. Steer clear of public computers in a hotel’s business center, for example. They could have spyware that gives other users access to your financial information.
2. Look for the color bar or padlock [...]

“Visa has reached an agreement in principle with Discover to settle litigation pending since 2004. The specific terms of the settlement are still being negotiated and will be made available when a final agreement has been reached.
“The settled claims are covered by the company’s retrospective responsibility plan, a mechanism for addressing potential liability in [...]

The Center for Digital Government recently named Idaho’s flexible payment solution as one of the best government-to-citizens solutions in the nation in its 2008 Best of the Web Digital Government Achievement Awards. PayPort is offered through Idaho’s official Web site (http://www.Idaho.gov) and allows state and local government agencies to accept credit and debit card payments [...]

Consumers Continue to Pull Back on Discretionary Spending; Cut Major Purchases First in the Wake of Decreasing Home and Asset Values
The Discover U.S. Spending Monitor was virtually flat in July, rising just one-tenth of a point to 86.1, as a rise in economic confidence among consumers during the last week of July kept the [...]