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(Des Moines, Iowa – February 29, 2012) – To better assist financial institutions with outreach to the underserved, The Members Group (TMG) has added instant issuance to the list of features available on its ATIRA- and Coopera-branded reloadable prepaid cards.

(Des Moines, Iowa – March 30, 2011) – As reloadable cards gain popularity among consumers, TMG’s Konrad Christensen hopes community financial institutions (FIs) will realize an even better end-user for the prepaid product – business clients.

(Des Moines, Iowa – October 30, 2009) – Midland Credit Union, a Des Moines-based credit union with more than 4,700 members and assets of $36 million, has added reloadable cards to its lineup of plastic products.

(Des Moines, Iowa – October 28, 2009) – Partnering with sister companies TMG (The Members Group) and Coopera Consulting, Des Moines-based Affinity Credit Union will launch prepaid reloadable cards to serve the Hispanic market. The new product – designed in part to improve Hispanic populations’ relationship with the financial sector – will be funded by a $40,000 Innovation Grant from the National Credit Union Foundation.

(Des Moines, Iowa – October 26, 2009) – TMG (The Members Group) has added Short Message

Service (SMS) text message alerts to its ATIRAreload card product, a reloadable prepaid card

offering available to TMG’s credit union and community bank clients.

To get credit union leaders thinking about growth during trying economic times, TMG (The Members Group) has issued a white paper on reloadable card programs.