Bank Freedom Enters Agreement with MoneyGram to Provide Prepaid Debit Card Holders with More Options for Fast and Affordable Reloading

Bank Freedom Enters Agreement with MoneyGram to Provide Prepaid Debit Card Holders with More Options for Fast and Affordable Reloading - Yahoo! Canada Finance
Bank Freedom®, a wholly owned subsidiary of Prepaid Card Holdings, Inc. (Pink Sheets: PPDC), today announced they entered into a Prepaid Card Program Manager Loading Agreement with MoneyGram International (NYSE: MGI), a global leader in the payment services industry. Under the agreement, all cardholders of prepaid debit card programs managed by Bank Freedom, including a 1.6 million member union, will be able to load their prepaid debit cards for only $3.95 at any of the over 40,000 MoneyGram agent locations nationwide.

The MoneyGram load network enables cardholders to add cash loads to their prepaid cards in real-time for instant availability of funds at MoneyGram agents which are located in virtually every community including many grocery, pharmacy and convenience store chains. Three Bank Freedom prepaid debit card programs are now eligible to load cash through the MoneyGram network. The three eligible prepaid card programs are CardNow® prepaid debit cards, AFSCME® Advantage, a 1.6 million-member union, and Bank Freedom prepaid debit cards.