IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/fip/fedker/93294.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Prepaid Cards: An Inadequate Solution for Digital Payments Inclusion

Author

Listed:
  • Ying Lei Toh

Abstract

Although prepaid cards have the potential to address digital payments exclusion, their use among unbanked households remains low.

Suggested Citation

  • Ying Lei Toh, 2021. "Prepaid Cards: An Inadequate Solution for Digital Payments Inclusion," Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, vol. 106(no.4), October.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedker:93294
    DOI: 10.18651/ER/v106n4Toh
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.kansascityfed.org/documents/8467/EconomicReviewV106N4Toh.pdf
    File Function: Full text
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.18651/ER/v106n4Toh?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Fumiko Hayashi, 2016. "Access to Electronic Payments Systems by Unbanked Consumers," Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, issue Q III, pages 51-76.
    2. Terri Bradford, 2020. "Neobanks: Banks by Any Other Name?," Payments System Research Briefing, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, pages 1-6, August.
    3. Claire Greene & Fumiko Hayashi & Joanna Stavins, 2020. "Delivering Benefits of Faster Payments to the Underserved," Consumer & Community Context 89155, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ying Lei Toh, 2021. "When Paying Bills, Low-Income Consumers Incur Higher Costs," Payments System Research Briefing, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, issue November , pages 1-7, November.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Jesse Leigh Maniff, 2020. "Inclusion by Design: Crafting a Central Bank Digital Currency to Reach All Americans," Payments System Research Briefing, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, pages 1-5, December.
    2. W. Scott Frame & Larry Wall & Lawrence J. White, 2018. "Technological Change and Financial Innovation in Banking: Some Implications for FinTech," Working Papers 18-28, New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Department of Economics.
    3. Jesse Leigh Maniff & W. Blake Marsh, 2017. "Banking on Distributed Ledger Technology: Can It Help Banks Address Financial Inclusion?," Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, issue Q III, pages 53-77.
    4. Paola Boel & Peter Zimmerman, 2022. "Unbanked in America: A Review of the Literature," Economic Commentary, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, vol. 2022(07), pages 1-10, May.
    5. Katarzyna Schmidt-Jessa, 2023. "The impact of COVID-19 on digital-only banks: are they winners or losers?," Journal of Banking Regulation, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 24(3), pages 310-320, September.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Prepaid Cards; Survey of Household Use of Banking and Financial Services (FDIC 2019); Payments; Financial Inclusion; Unbanked;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:fip:fedker:93294. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Zach Kastens (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/frbkcus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.