Time is Right for Gratis!

Two great stories that supports the demand for the Gratis Card.

Aneace's Blog: Mega trend: Banks mass issue premium cards for more interchange revenue (but risk making merchants even angrier!)

http://itforfinancialservices.blogspot.com/2007/03/gratiscard-next-competitor-to-visa-and.html

Gratis. The Most Secure Card Out There?

Jaikumar Vijayan writes for ComputerWorld about GratisCard - saying that "when the company launches on April 1, it plans to introduce the nation's first completely anonymous credit card with no name or number and no physical data stored on the card itself.

The GratisCard is issued by First Bank & Trust, Brookings, SD.

Revel Card Issuer Also to Issue New GratisCard

As reported today in BusinessWeek and the Wall Street Journal, First Bank & Trust is the issuer of the new GratisCard, whose backers include Steve Case of AOL. FB&T has issued the GratisCards booked to date as part of the early tests with the Philadelphia 76ers and Philadelphia Flyers.

FB&T also issues the Revel Card and utilizes the GratisCard platform to deliver the Revel Advance feature.

Follow the Payments News coverage of Gratis.