The BlackboardPay Campus Card Program was honored as the best government-funded prepaid card program in the 2011 Paybefore Awards. Winners in each of 15 categories will now compete in the Best-in-Category distinction which will be announced during an award ceremony at the Prepaid Expo USA on March 7 at the World Center Marriott in Orlando, […]

New Haven, Conn.-based Higher One says it is now featuring a podcast series of the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC) called Money Smart on Higher One’s student financial education destination One For Your Money (formerly Game Time.) The FDIC Money Smart program is part of the FDIC’s national financial education curriculum designed to help young […]

By Taran Lent, Vice President of Product Development and Co-Founder, CardSmith Campus card programs continue to grow in scale and scope. Once just simple systems used to administer meal plans, campus card programs are becoming more and more complex financial instruments accepted for payments everywhere on and around campus, and even online. Correspondingly, the cost […]

Dates: April 17-20, 2011 Location: Baltimore, Maryland Venue: Marriott Waterfront Hotel URL: http://www.naccu.org/2011/ Description: NACCU’s Annual Conference brings together a variety of campus card professionals from a wide array of disciplines and management perspectives. The Conference has developed into the single most important opportunity to learn about the latest technological advances, marketing innovations, and business […]

A statewide probe into deceptive credit card marketing practices targeting students on New York college campuses could create headaches for the credit business, but it might be good news for campus card companies. That’s what industry leaders are hoping will follow an investigation launched in August by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, says Lowell […]

Higher One announced it has renewed its contract with Clayton State University located in Morrow, Ga. A client since 2006, Clayton State utilizes Higher One’s OneDisburse Refund Management service to simplify the refund process on campus, as well as offer a streamlined service for both administrators and students. Using Higher One’s OneDisburse Refund Management system […]

Blackboard announced that three colleges and universities have implemented the new BlackboardPay prepaid card program to deliver more than $40 million in financial aid to students through the service. The University of Texas at Tyler, Georgia Gwinnett College and Jones County Junior College in Mississippi have used BlackboardPay to simplify financial aid and student payroll […]

The University of Dallas has partnered with technology and payment services provider Higher One to offer a more efficient process to distribute financial aid refunds and other disbursements to its students. Up until now the university issued refunds to students by paper check. Staffs were assigned the labor-intensive task of printing, stuffing, addressing and mailing […]

The State University of New York (SUNY) has awarded a system-wide payment contract for the CASHNet suite of payment services provided by Higher One. Higher One’s CASHNet Suite will be responsible for providing a secure streamline way for payments to be made to SUNY campuses be it from students, parents or sponsors. Several SUNY campuses […]

Higher One Payments and Travelex have partnered up to create the CASHNet ePayment system, intended to provide universities and colleges with improved processing to collect tuition and other payments from students studying abroad in the United States. The over-the-Web service gives international students, parents and other authorized users the ability to view current balances and […]