Originally Posted by MobiusMike

Not that easy. They've got to find a bank that issues a loadable product and will allow them to integrate their system to the bank at some level or another to effect the transfers from the main deposit account to the individual accounts attached to the issued cards.

Further, if it's e-Passport that's causing the bank's issue with VISA, VISA probably won't let them jump ship to another bank.

This really depends on what the real issue behind the scenes is. My guess is that this was VISA protecting themselves from some sort of liability because they found something really wrong here. Unless VISA gave them due notice and the bank and/or e-Passporte didn't release it to the users while they tried to work it out.