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- Home Depot expands credit card. (Retail briefs).(agreement with Citigroup)(Brief Article)
- The Home Depot and Citigroup have announced that they have agreed on a multi-year agreement that will expand The Home Depot's consumer credit card, commercial revolving charge and commercial accounts beginning mid-2003. "This exclusive partner The Home Depot and Citigroup have announced that they...
- Research articles 2002-06-03
- Establishing a Transparent Market: Early Settlement Consumer Credit Advertising Form and Content of Credit Agreements APRs on Credit Cards On-line Agreements
- This white paper outlines proposals for making the provisions on early settlement fairer, simplifying the advertising regime, and making the form and content of credit agreements clearer and more transparent. These changes are necessary to bring the current legislation up to date and ensure it both reflects the ways in...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Consumers and Credit Disclosures: Credit Cards and Credit Insurance
- This paper concludes that evaluating the direct effects of disclosure legislation like Truth in Lending on either consumer behavior or the functioning of the credit marketplace is never a simple matter because there are always competing explanations for observed phenomena. From consumer surveys over time, however, it seems likely that...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Consumer Credit Counseling: Credit Card Issuers' Perspectives
- A flood of new entrants into the credit counseling industry has left issuers, consumer advocates, established CCCS agencies, and policymakers puzzled. While increased competition in any given market usually results in better deals for consumers and into increased innovation, such factors have not marked the explosion in the number of...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- BIG STORE'S BIG GAMBLE: Cutting the card; Once unthinkable, sale of credit unit ends an era at Sears.(Finance)(consumer credit programs)
- Byline: SANDRA JONES When Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold its first product on credit in 1911-a cream separator for skimming the cream from milk-all it required from customers was a letter from their banker stating that they were "reliable.'' ...
- Research articles 2003-07-21
- WCC Launches First Iridium-Based Global Satellite Pay Phone to Accept Consumer Credit Cards
- World Communication Center WCC, a leading provider of global satellite voice and data communications, today launched the first Iridium-based satellite pay phone able to use a credit card swiper for direct billing to the caller. Equipped with Iridium satellite technology, WCC's satellite pay phone can deliver credit card-based calling...
- Research articles 2006-02-20
- Tech Roundup: Killings Over Firing, Consumer Credit Slashed, Ubuntu for ARM, More
- Fired employee allegedly kills three at fomer employer SiPort; consumers face slashed credit card limits; Microsoft tries to position Xbox 360 as social network gateway; people start tiring of standalone instant messaging apps; and Canonical plans on ARM version of Ubuntu. by Erik Sherman
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
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- ChevronTexaco Lowers Credit and Debit Card Processing Fees for Summer Driving Season; ChevronTexaco Also Introduces Programs for New Consumer Credit Card Customers
- SAN RAMON, Calif. -- ChevronTexaco's Credit Card Enterprises CCE today announced it will reduce processing fees for retailers and marketers on credit and debit card purchases made between June 1, 2005 and August 31, 2005. All charges on electronic third party credit and debit cards, including Visa, Mastercard, American Express,...
- Research articles 2005-04-29
- Will Merchants and Consumers Get Relief From Soaring Credit Card Fees?
- Kathy and Warren Miller run a mom-and-pop grocery store in tiny Elmore, Vt. pictured at left, and soaring credit card fees are strangling it. In congressional testimony on Thursday, she said they make only two cents whenever a customer pays for a 99 cent bag of potato...
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- GE Consumer Finance and IKEA Enter Partnership to Offer Store-Branded Credit Card; Private Label Card to Offer Customers Multiple Ways to Save On Purchases
- STAMFORD, Conn. -- GE Consumer Finance, the consumer lending unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), today announced that it will offer a new private label credit card to U.S. customers of IKEA, the world's leading home furnishings retailer. The IKEA Card will be issued by GE Consumer Finance and...
- Research articles 2005-08-30
- Method used by hacker who stole 130m credit card IDs common, experts say
- US companies and law enforcement agencies face questions over security after biggest credit card scam in historyMajor US companies and law enforcement agencies are facing fresh questions today about the ease with which hackers can penetrate their defences and make off with vital data about consumers following the arrest and...
- News items 2009-08-18
- Honeywell license for patented display technology granted to Chunghwa Picture Tubes of Taiwan; GE Consumer Finance and IKEA Enter partnership to offer store-branded credit card.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-30 August 2005-US Financial Network: Honeywell license for patented display technology granted to Chunghwa Picture Tubes of Taiwan; GE Consumer Finance and IKEA Enter partnership to offer store-branded credit cardC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:30082005 City of Industry, CA - Conglomerate...
- Research articles 2005-08-30
- Food retailers complain about charge card charges
- Rapidly increasing fees charged by credit and debit card companies coupled with a lack of federal controls over those fees are squeezing food retailers' profit margins, according to the Food Marketing Institute FMI. In recent testimony to the House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, FMI Senior Vice President...
- Research articles 2004-09-27
- Cyphermint Adds Credit and Debit Card Linking to PayCash Mobile Payment System
- Adding to its global mobile strategy, Cyphermint, Inc., a leading provider of secure electronic payment solutions, announced today that mobile banking and bill payment capabilities on a consumer's mobile phone or other wireless device can be securely linked to a consumer's credit, debit, stored value card or bank account through...
- Research articles 2007-01-18
- More Japanese banks boosting consumer-related services.
- By Takashi Yamazaki, The Yomiuri Shimbun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--Major financial institutions are strengthening nonbanking consumer-related services as part of efforts to ensure consumer loans and credit, as well as credit card services, targeted at individuals enjoy high profits....
- Research articles 2004-11-04
- Debit and credit card schemes in Australia.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-10 October 2000-ACCC: Debit and credit card schemes in Australia C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10102000 The Payments System Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission today released, for public discussion, a study...
- Research articles 2000-10-10
- U.S. Bank and Firstar Add Security to Internet Shopping for Credit and Debit Card Holders
- Business, High-Tech & Consumer/Retail Editors MINNEAPOLIS--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 20, 2001 Internet shoppers who use U.S. Bank (NYSE:USB) and Firstar Visa credit or debit cards, or the Elan Visa credit card, may now add an additional level of security when they make Internet purchases by signing up for Verified by...
- Research articles 2001-12-20
- The U.S. Federal Trade Commission reported that in 2004 Americans lost over $547 million to consumer fraud and identity theft schemes, up more than $100 million from the previous year
- The U.S. Federal Trade Commission reported that in 2004 Americans lost over $547 million to consumer fraud and identity theft schemes, up more than $100 million from the previous year. Of the more than 635,000 consumer fraud complaints filed, 61% were for fraud and 39% were for identity theft. The...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- Home Equity: A Reader Responds to Consumer Confidence and Prayer
- I've spent more time thinking about consumer confidence and prayer, the subject of my blog on May 26. What could the pollsters be tapping into that would reflect such an enormous jump in confidence? Is it that the stock market has risen 30 percent or so from...
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- Finance sector baffled by EFTPOS ruling: banks, building societies and credit unions have attacked the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's backflip in denying the application to reduce EFTPOS interchange fees to zero
- BANKS The Australian Bankers' Association described the draft determination on EFTPOS reform by the ACCC surprising. The application to set the interchange fee to zero by banks, building societies and credit unions modelled to address the concerns articulated in the joint study published by the ACCC and Reset...
- Research articles 2003-08-31
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