Two Bitcoin debit/pre-paid card programs seem to have been affected by regulations or license restrictions and are being forced to stop or restrict their card offerings.
Yesterday Shakepay sent an email regarding the change. They are forced to serve only the European Territory (45 countries), while they used to serve 135 countries among which were Australia and Canada, although not USA.
Today the second case is, ANXPRO.com who sent the following email. Effectively cancelling their Elite Program which was a Visa pre-paid card, while their Premium program which is Mastercard-based looks still alive.
You probably noticed the same deadline of October 15th, 2017 for both cases and it make sense since both were Visa-based which forced the changes.
ShakePay is quite respectable, not sure about ANXPRO, but there are certainly more shady Bitcoin pre-paid/virtual cards that are probably getting similar treatment on restricting them.
tl;dr Visa starts to be more stringent around enabling Bitcoin-based products.