Canadian Prepaid Issuer Sees Exponential Growth

Peoples Trust Leveraged Growing Canadian Payments Markets to Expand Issuing Services to 150 New Programs and more than CA$1.2 billion in 2015 

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Peoples Trust, the leading federally chartered prepaid card issuer in Canada, announced significant growth in 2015 with the addition of 150 new programs, and a nearly 19% increase in dollar volume from 2014.

Canada is one of the fastest growing prepaid markets and has emerged as a lead market for global fintech expansion in recent years. Peoples specializes in helping card program managers establish, launch and grow card programs across Canada through BIN sponsorship, regulatory expertise, and market guidance.

"In contrast with other markets, prepaid in Canada has broad adoption among both banked and unbanked consumers and businesses," said Peter Read, president of Peoples Card Services a subsidiary of Peoples Trust. "Peoples expects continued market growth driven by innovative applications across mobile and digital payments, travel, incentives, payroll and many others."

Peoples has issued more than 30 million prepaid cards across 750+ programs in Canada, totaling more than CA$1.2 billion in card loads last year. Peoples is seeing an uptick in new market entrants, in particular from the U.S. as the prepaid market for both consumers and businesses expands. These companies have a unique need for Canadian issuing expertise to navigate the varying regional and national regulations and protocols. In more than a decade of serving the prepaid market, Peoples has built a robust issuing infrastructure to reach and properly support national payments programs of this type.

For more information on prepaid and credit card issuing services in Canada, visit peoplescardservices.com.

About Peoples Trust Company
Peoples Trust is a federally chartered financial institution that has been providing financial services to Canadians for over 30 years. For more than a decade, Peoples has been providing comprehensive issuing services for prepaid and credit cards. Their regulatory expertise and market guidance have helped card program managers from around the world establish, launch and grow card programs in Canada. For more information, visit peoplescardservices.com.

Media Contacts:
Peoples Card Services
Heidi Weinstein
714-206-1451
[email protected]

SOURCE Peoples Trust

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