DUBLIN, Oct. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Prepaid and Gift Cards in Canada" report to their offering.
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Driven by both open-loop and closed-loop card growth, prepaid cards continue to gain traction in the Canadian marketplace: Packaged Facts expects transaction volume to rise more than 15% in 2014.
While new prepaid card regulations are now in force, it's only a matter of time before general-purpose reloadable prepaid card interchange rates garner more scrutiny. But with greater consumer transparency and with newer card programs offering more competitive pricing, we see robust growth for these cards in the near term. Maintaining high rates of growth will require expanding the target audience beyond the relatively narrow band of Canadian underbanked and unbanked consumers and convincing more mainstream consumers to part with their debit cards, especially 18-34s.
This report gives industry participants guidance for success in the Canadian prepaid card market. Specifically, the report:
- Addresses challenges and opportunities faced by the prepaid card industry, including regulatory trends, competition in the form of debit and bank accounts, and interchange potential.
- Provides demographic analysis of the Canadian prepaid card user in the context of consumer debit card, credit card and checking account usage and cross-usage, as well as banked status (unbanked, banked, fully banked and underbanked).
- Identifies and interprets key prepaid card metrics, including monthly cardholder usage costs; monthly spend; monthly purchase, ATM withdrawal, and reload transactions; length of card use and intended length of use. We also identify the percentage of prepaid cardholders with direct deposit, and then assess the degree that direct deposit influences these metrics.
- Shares how consumers (including prepaid and debit card users) rank prepaid cards against debit cards with respect to competitive features such as card usage cost, ease of qualification, overdraft fee protection, spending control, breadth of card acceptance, and customer service.
- Analyzes prepaid card users with respect to mobile payment trends, including smartphone penetration among the unbanked, mobile payment methods, mobile phone usage at point-of-sale, PayPal payments, and P2P methods.
- Assesses a variety of general-purpose reloadable prepaid card brands: Nextwave Titanium+ Prepaid Visa; Iridium Prepaid MasterCard; CanaCash Financial Services PRIZM Prepaid VISA Card; Citizens Bank/Vancity Prepaid Card; opt+ Prepaid MasterCard; and the TD Go Card. Analysis is organized by the cost to buy, load, withdraw, spend, and share funds, as well as by customer service and balance inquiry costs, and by penalties.
- Analyzes Canadian prepaid card marketer & issuer strategies, including those of card networks MasterCard, Visa and Interac and leading prepaid card issuers Peoples Trust Company, Vancouver City Savings Credit Union, DC Payments, and AllTrans Financial Services Credit Union Bank.
- Provides a market size and forecast for Canadian open- and closed-loop prepaid cards. For context, we provide an overview of general-purpose reloadable prepaid card programs and a survey-derived gift card market size segmented according to sales by occasion and by recipient.
Key Topics Covered:
Chapter 1: Executive Summary
Chapter 2: Regulatory Overview
Chapter 3: Market Size and Forecast
Chapter 4: Challenges and Opportunities
Chapter 5: Prepaid Card Fee, Usage Method & Spend Analysis
Chapter 6: Consumer Comparison of Prepaid Card versus Debit Cards
Chapter 7: Prepaid Card Users in Context: Debit, Credit, Checking and Banked Status
Chapter 8: Prepaid Card Users and Mobile Payments
Chapter 9: Consumer Gift Card Usage Trends
Chapter 10: Prepaid Card Brand Analysis
Chapter 11: Prepaid Card Marketer & Issuer Strategies
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/lg6ckx/prepaid_and_gift
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