Not to be confused with reloadable retailer cards or reloadable gift cards (good only for purchases with specific merchants), these are general-purpose cards that consumers "load up" and spend ...

Although AmEx issues prepaid gift cards, Pass is AmEx’s first reloadable prepaid card ... Parents can load funds into accounts tied to each of the cards and monitor their kids’ spending online.

New regulations would cover only reloadable prepaid cards, which allow people to use them like a credit card or debit card through a payment network such as Visa or MasterCard. Gift cards ...