Installment Lending: Old Solutions to New Problems or Vice Versa?
My career in credit started with Household Finance, during the Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter years as the US was ...
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Credit Card Theft in Australia: Robbing the Wrong Guy
There’s never the “right guy” to steal from, but whoever breached Phillip Lowe’s credit card account chose the wrong person. ...
Are consumers filling out more credit card applications?
Data for this episode of Truth In Data provided by Mercator Advisory Group’s report – U.S. Consumers and Credit: Playing the Rewards ...
When Shopping Online Credit Cards are King
The Credit Union Journal recently published an article on the growth of credit card lending at credit unions reached $59.8 ...
Are Secured Credit Cards Bouncing Back From A Dubious Past?
Bounous Data For card issuers, there are three strategies for secured cards: Issuers can invest in promising cardholders - or ...
A Perp, a Shirk, and a Jerk: Three Offbeat Credit Card Fraud Stories on a Slow News Day
Interesting fraud stories on a banking holiday today: Uber Eats, Harry Potter, and the Church Thief. The first is reminiscent ...
Tap Dancing on the MTA: From Credit Card Swipe to Dip then Wave
Just as the U.S. market shifted from the muscle memory of swiping their credit card to dipping it into an ...
Walmart Credit Cards: Playing Hardball in Payments (Again)
Breakups are rarely pretty. Today’s read comes from the WSJ and the American Banker discuss Walmart’s recently filed lawsuit which ...
What Percent of SMBs Carry Consistent Credit Card Debt?
24% of SMBs' report carrying a credit balance month to month Half of all SMBs report carrying credit debt occasionally ...
Lend Your Kid Your Plastic, Expect To Get Burned
If you let your kid borrow your plastic to buy something online, there’s about a 50/50 chance that you’ll end ...
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