by MBJ Staff Published: January 9,2013
Tags: bank, banker, banking, debit-card, finance, financial institution, introduction, launch, prepaid, product, rollout, service
TUPELO — BancorpSouth Inc. has launched the BancorpSouth Prepaid Card program designed to serve as an alternative to traditional checking accounts. “The Prepaid Card program puts customers in control of their funds, and having no minimum balance or overdraft fees make the cards ideal for budgeting, travel and students,” said Derek Caswell , BancorpSouth first [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 19,2012
Tags: college, finance, financial, Higher Learning, prepaid, state agency, state government, suspend, suspension, tuition, university
JACKSON — State Treasurer Lynn Fitch has told lawmakers that she suspended the state’s prepaid college tuition program because it is struggling financially and an audit will show whether it needs to be overhauled or scrapped, as many other states with similar programs have done. Fitch appeared yesterday before the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. Until [...] [...]
NATCHEZ — Former Natchez Alderman Theodore “Bubber” West has been given a suspended sentence after entering an open plea to charges he failed to put money from prepaid funeral policies into a proper trust. The attorney general’s office says West’s open plea meant that he refused to accept the state’s recommended sentence and threw himself [...] [...]