The New Credit-Card Tricks - Wall Street Journal


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The New Credit-Card Tricks
Wall Street Journal
The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009, known as the Card Act, was intended to reshape the contours of consumer finance. ...
What is a merchant supposed to do when a credit card is left at his or her ...Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
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Lessons from my worst money blunders: credit card emergency fund - Christian Science Monitor


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Lessons from my worst money blunders: credit card emergency fund
Christian Science Monitor
I treated my credit card as my emergency fund. In late 2004, the brakes failed (in a nearly catastrophic fashion) on my 1997 Ford F150. ...
Credit cards more transparent, but problems remainExaminer.com
Paper shows that credit card users win at the register, not cash usersMarketplace (blog)
Transfers lower credit card interest rateBankrate.com
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Those credit card rewards cost us a lot of cash - OregonLive.com (blog)

Those credit card rewards cost us a lot of cash
OregonLive.com (blog)
Last week, Federal Reserve Bank economists in Boston released a study reasserting what other economists increasingly contend -- credit card rewards aren't ...
New credit card laws help merchants, but what about customers?WalletPop (blog)

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Fitch: Credit card delinquencies fall in June - BusinessWeek

Fitch: Credit card delinquencies fall in June
BusinessWeek
Fewer consumers were late on their credit card payments in June, according to a report Fitch Ratings released Thursday. Payments that were 60 or more days ...
Fitch: Credit-Card Charge-Offs Fall For 1st Time In 3 1/2 YearsNASDAQ
Fitch Publishes Credit Card Movers & Shakers with May 2010 PerformanceEarthtimes
Fitch: No Relapse for US Credit Card ABS; Defaults ReboundPR-inside.com (press release)

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Redecard Quarterly Profit Rises 9.1% on Higher Credit, Debit-Card Spending - Bloomberg

Redecard Quarterly Profit Rises 9.1% on Higher Credit, Debit-Card Spending
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Cielo, the country's biggest credit-card processor by market value, ended its exclusive right to handle Visa-branded transactions this month. ...
Brazil's Redecard 2Q Net BRL374.6M Vs BRL343.3MWall Street Journal
Brazil's Redecard Q2 net up 9 pct, beats estimatesReuters
Brazil's Redecard To Pay $377 Million In DividendsWall Street Journal

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Visa Profit Exceeds Most Estimates as Consumers Boost Credit-Card Spending - Bloomberg


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Visa Profit Exceeds Most Estimates as Consumers Boost Credit-Card Spending
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Kupferberg, speaking from New York, also discusses the Federal Reserve's new debit-card regulations aimed at Visa and No. 2 network MasterCard Inc. (Source: ...
Big-Box Stores: Big Winners In Swipe-Fee ReformForbes
Visa Hopes It Can Come to Terms with the Justice DepartmentDigital Transactions
Spending Benefits Visa But Its Profit Drops 1.8%Wall Street Journal
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School board member confesses to misuse of credit card - Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)

School board member confesses to misuse of credit card
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
I am responsible for $855.83 of disallowed charges made to the credit card between May 29 and June 30, 2010. These charges included an airline ticket, food, ...

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Cops: Bridgeport couple caught within hours after using stolen credit card - TMCnet

Cops: Bridgeport couple caught within hours after using stolen credit card
TMCnet
Ramirez was charged with fourth-degree larceny, sixth-degree larceny, credit card theft, illegal use of a credit card and criminal liability for acts of ...

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