A global survey by Accenture on mobile devices and shopping shows that "smartphone users would find it useful to download money-off coupons to their phones (79%), and receive instant money-off coupons as they pass by an item in a store (73%). Conversely, fewer than half (48%) of smartphone users have downloaded a coupon from their PCs."

FIS has announced a "new low-cost, prepaid electronic financial account solution that enables consumers to make electronic deposits and payments as an alternative to a traditional demand deposit account (DDA) or general-purpose reloadable (GPR) prepaid card."

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