Finding new ways to spend money you do and don't have makes up the two largest segments in consumer finance:...

The past two years Core Innovation Capital has issued a national challenge for who makes the most innovative product or...

Yesterday, back-end processor TSYS and prepaid card proprietor NetSpend announced the former would buy the latter for $1.4 billion.  This...

Goal and resolutions?  Too personal. Predictions for this coming year? Too much pressure. Post mortem on last year? Too boring. So, instead,...

Walmart made Green Dot.  Now it's making Blue bird.  The low-cost merchant has long offered a full suite of payments...

The CFPB is meant to be an enforcer of consumer protections.  Many of its staff sit in offices of our...

People generally assume serving the underbanked is a noble thing to do.  And it is, if you do it right....

About a year ago, a friend set up a call for me with Suze Orman, while she was still planning...

The House Financial Services subcommittee contemplated a new Act today.  It goes by H.R.6363, but its friends know it as Credit Access...

The FDIC updated its 2009 figures (based on 2008 Census data) of who uses what kind of basic financial services...