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Business Insider, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Payments Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. New gamification features are coming to Walmart MoneyCard, the retailer's prepaid card issued by Green Dot. The program, called Prize Savings, is an effort to encourage holders to keep more money in savings. The firms believe there’s a “savings crisis” in the US, which reportedly prompted the launch of the program, but it could also indirectly increase engagement with Walmart MoneyCard, which ultimately helps both the retailer and the issuer. The program uses cash prizes to incentivize savings. The program enters MoneyCard customers into a monthly sweepstakes for saving funds. Users can use the MoneyCard app or website to transfer money from their card balance into the MoneyCard Vault, a free savings feature. For every dollar they enter into their Vault, they receive one entry in a sweepstakes, which draws 500 winners for cash prizes per month. Indirectly, the program incentivizes users to engage more with their prepaid card, which could indirectly encourage usage.
Prepaid cards such as this are just one piece of the much larger payments ecosystem, which has grown more complex in the last several years and now includes issuers, merchants, processors, and more. John Heggestuen, senior research analyst at BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service, has compiled a detailed report on the payments ecosystem that drills into the industry to explain how a broad range of transactions are processed, including prepaid and store cards, as well as revealing which types of companies are in the best and worst position to capitalize on the latest industry trends. Here are some key takeaways from the report:
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