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- Why You Should Use a Credit Card for Airplane Tickets
- If you routinely charge plane tickets to a debit card, stop. The New York Times explains why you should always use a credit card for your flight purchases: Under the federal Fair Credit Billing Act, a credit card company is required to return your money for a service not...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Fed Proposes Reforming Credit Card Practices
- Fed Proposes Reforming Credit Card PracticesNeed for Credit Card RegultaionsCredit Card interest charges need to regulated, this is more relevent in the present times when consumers are going through tough times due to global financial and food crisis.The interest charged by the Credit Card on outstanding balance should be pegged...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Credit Card Issuers Kicked Around on Capitol Hill
- The Antitrust Task Force of the House Judiciary Committee held hearings this week on legislation that sheds a little light on the interchange and transaction fees merchants pay to accept credit cards -- and the underlying cost of our national obsession with plastic. The Credit Card Fair...
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- There's Profit Hidden in Those "Free Grocery" Promotions
- Last month, I said it was smart when Cincinnati-based Kroger placed broad terms on its bid to pick up some of the economic stimulus money that's showing up in shoppers' hands this week. While Sears/Kmart offered a 10 percent bonus only if you handed them your whole stimulus check, Kroger...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Volume Not Price 'fuels Bank Fee Growth'
- Bank fee revenues last financial year rose faster than in the previous year because of strong demand for services rather than increased prices, the Reserve bank of Australia RBAsaid on Thursday.The value of banks' fee revenue rose by 7.5 per cent to $10.5 billion in the year to June...
- News items 2008-05-15
- Fed Backs Credit Card Reforms
- By John Poirier WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Friday joined other U.S. banking regulators in backing new limits on certain billing practices by credit card companies. The Fed approved a proposal that would generally prohibit credit card companies from increasing the...
- News items 2008-05-02
- Barclays Cuts 1,000 Jobs at Goldfish Unit
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - Barclays BARC is set to cut almost 1,000 jobs at its newly acquired Goldfish credit card unit as it closes a call centre and London headquarters to integrate the business with its Barclaycard operations. Britain's largest credit card provider, which bought ...
- News items 2008-05-07
- Ami Kassar: Innovation in Small Business Finance
- Ami Kassar is Chief Innovation Officer at Advanta, one of the country’s largest credit card issuers to small businesses. Kassar talks about why it’s important to stay innovative in the world of finance and the benefits of investing in small businesses.
- Videos 2008-05-02
- Advance Auto Parts Cops to Credit Card Theft
- From retail tech blog StoreFrontBackTalk: The latest retailer to report credit card data theft, Advance Auto Parts, admits that stolen info dating back three to seven years was not encrypted, violating basic security practices. An Advance Auto Parts spokeswoman told blogger Evan Schuman that the majority of...
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- eLayaway Offers New Solution to Sluggish Retail Sales
- Remember layaway? If your mom couldn't afford something, she put 10 percent down and paid a few bucks a week through the layaway window until the item was paid off and she could bring it home. Now it's coming back as retailers and shoppers alike question the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- All It Takes Is One Slip (of paper) for an Identity Thief to Strike
- This paper is about the misuse of credit cards. An impostor steals your name and Social Security number, opens bank accounts, rents apartments, buys cars, charges up numerous credit cards to the hilt and disappears. If you are one of the millions of people who will be a victim this...
- White papers
- The History of Money and Credit Cards
- This article gives a brief history about credit cards. In 1950, the Diners' Club issued the first credit card (invented by Diners' Club founder Frank McNamara) in the United States restaurant bills only and American Express followed in 1958. By the early 1960s, more companies offered credit cards, advertising them...
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- BCSS Software Means Easy Money: Prime Factors' Bank Card Security System Software Expands on One Company's Services and Significantly Increases Revenue.
- Prime Factors' Bank Card Security System software expands on one company's services and significantly increases revenue. Manufacturing credit and debit cards for credit companies and banks is a lucrative but competitive business. With credit card fraud becoming more pervasive, data security is a top issue with larger credit companies like...
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- Chip and Pin
- The article refers to the usage of credit and debit cards. As some of you may have noticed there are gradual changes underway in the manner that we use our credit and debit cards in shops, restaurants, pubs, garages etc. This program of change has been dubbed 'Chip & PIN'...
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- National Credit Card Center
- With deregulation leading to new competition in the Taiwanese credit-card processing market, National Credit Card Center NCCC was looking for new ways to maintain its competitive advantage. EDS helped implement a new end-to-end processing system that cuts costs, improves service and enables a wider range of electronic payment products.
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- Neural Data Mining for Credit Card Fraud Detection
- The prevention of credit card fraud is an important application for prediction technique. One major obstacle for using neural network training techniques is the high necessary diagnostic quality: Since only one financial transaction of a thousand is invalid no prediction success less than 99.9% is acceptable. Due to these credit...
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- Federated Department Stores Saves Millions of Dollars in Credit Card Dispute Resolution Costs With Electronic Signature Capture
- Every day, millions of customers pay for purchases by credit card. When customers review monthly statements, and do not recall a specific purchase, they may suspect possible fraud and dispute the charge either directly with the store or with the bank issuing the credit card. Since nearly all credit card...
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- Protecting Online Credit Card Use
- Barclaycard is Europe's leading issuer of credit cards with 10.4 million customers and 12 million cards in circulation worldwide. Considerable effort has been devoted to building and developing the banks secure online systems but Barclaycard did not want to become complacent. Any breach of the security could have significant impact...
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- Why Have a Credit Card?
- This paper provides the pros and cons of having a credit card. Unlike cash, credit cards are accepted all over the world, wherever there is a logo (usually on the shop's window) belonging to your credit card. Any goods that you wish to buy can be purchased with your card...
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- Credit Card Protection
- Some credit card companies will offer a period of time where the goods that you have bought will be 'protected'. This means that should you suffer theft of these goods , damage or even lose them the credit card company may replace them through the cover in your credit card's...
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