Many prepaid and gift cards suspended

Darc19 · 2020-06-27 05:11:58

Wirecard provide many of the shopping centre, an post, me2you and other gift/prepaid cards. They've gone bust and their operating license suspended. This means that all cards issued by wirecard cannot be used at present. Should be a temporary issue until the UK's fca works its way around the problems But could be a couple…

27-06-2020 06:11AM

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Wirecard provide many of the shopping centre, an post, me2you and other gift/prepaid cards.

They've gone bust and their operating license suspended.

This means that all cards issued by wirecard cannot be used at present.

Should be a temporary issue until the UK's fca works its way around the problems

But could be a couple of weeks. But don't expect any wirecard card to work until this is sorted. - the wirecard name should be somewhere on the card in small print.

https://www.fca.org.uk/news/news-stories/requirements-imposed-wirecard-authorisation

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50k an post money cards have been suspended because of this

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