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AD Beat: Snip, Snip, Snip. Discover's Sharp Message Cuts to Core.
A sea of dancing, hungry scissors may be Stephen King's idea of playful companions, but Discover Financial Services saw instead a captivating image to help differentiate its credit card from industry giants MasterCard, Visa and American Express. But does A sea of dancing, hungry scissors may be Stephen King's...
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Nearly 80 Percent of U.S. Adult Online Consumers Made Internet Purchase in Previous Six Months, According to Nielsen Online
Nielsen Online, a service of the NielsenCompany, today announced that 78 percent of adult online consumers made apurchase over the Web in the previous six months, according to @Plan,Winter 2008/2009 Release. The No. 1 online transaction category was travel, with 38 percent of adultonline consumers making at least one travel...
Articles 2008-11-12
Brown to act over credit card rate rises
Gordon Brown ordered a crackdown on credit and debit card rises yesterday after The Independent revealed that banks had raised rates even though borrowing costs had fallen. The Government has called a summit with the credit card industry, which will be held soon, at which ministers will...
Articles 2008-11-12
Small Nonprofits Turn to Affinity Credit Cards to Raise Funds, Level Field in Tough Economy
CardPartner Adds Momentum With $150 Sign-On Bonus NEW YORK -- Squeezed by an economy in turmoil, small nonprofits have discovered that a new twist on the old affinity credit card model can help them raise cash by making their size irrelevant. Affinity credit cards pay nonprofits...
Articles 2008-11-11
AmEx OK'd to become commercial bank
WASHINGTON -- American Express wants your deposits. The Federal Reserve on Monday granted AmEx's request to become a commercial bank, opening the door for the credit card giant to accept deposits and permanently access financing from the Fed. The Fed said it had approved...
Articles 2008-11-11
O Bee Credit Union Announces "The ONYX" New Low 6.90% Fixed Rate Credit Card
TUMWATER, Wash. -- O Bee Credit Union (Tumwater, WA) has announced it is offering a new low 6.90% APR fixed rate credit card called "The ONYX". "With credit card rates spiraling out of control for consumers and higher interest and default rates up to 36%, we decided to resist this...
Articles 2008-11-11
Advanta Declares Quarterly Dividends
SPRING HOUSE, Pa. -- Advanta Corp. (NASDAQ: ADVNB; ADVNA) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of 17.71 cents for its Class A Common Stock and 21.25 cents for its Class B Common Stock. The dividends will be payable on December 12, 2008 to...
Articles 2008-11-11
Lawsuit targets San Mateo debt company
A San Mateo-based debt reduction company made misleading claims to its customers and lacks proper licensing from the state, according to a lawsuit recently filed against it by the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office and the California Department of Corporations. The suit targets a group of...
Articles 2008-11-10
Time we took on the loan sharks
TIMING is everything when you're a loan shark. And there is no better time than these dark weeks before Christmas when poor families are desperate for cash. Especially if the loan shark can masquerade as a legitimate loan company to answer all...
Articles 2008-11-09
Don't forgive credit card debt
We're familiar with the chicken-and-egg arguments over who is responsible for Americans spending more than they earn. One side blames credit card companies for papering the landscape with offers for plastic and easy credit. The other side says that, regardless of the offers, people have no one but themselves to...
Articles 2008-11-07
Small Businesses Put Price First When Choosing Credit Card Processors
A survey recently conducted by TransparentFinancial Services TransFS, shows that small businesses put price firstwhen choosing a creditcard processing company, also known as a merchant account provider.Major findings of the survey include: -- 72% of survey respondents rated Price as either the "Most Important" ...
Articles 2008-11-06
Nickelback and Mary J Blige Star in New Citi Cards Holiday Promotion
Citi Cardmembers Can Win Exclusive Access to Superstars NEW YORK, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Citi, through its partnership with Live Nation, the world's largest live music company, is giving its cardmembers the chance to win exclusive access to music superstars Nickelback and Mary J Blige. Starting November...
Articles 2008-11-06
Discover Financial Services to Present at Merrill Lynch Banking & Financial Services Conference
RIVERWOODS, Ill. -- David Nelms, chief executive officer of Discover Financial Services, will present at the Merrill Lynch Banking & Financial Services Conference at The Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York on Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 3:25 pm Eastern. Presentation slides and a link to the live audio...
Articles 2008-11-05
Zero-percent financing on foreclosures
Despite posting the worst sales month in some 25 years, the auto industry is about to make a comeback using newspaper ads and TV commercials containing those magical words "zero percent financing." Once commonly employed by credit card companies as a teaser rate and later perfected by...
Articles 2008-11-04
Nervous creditors put squeeze on small businesses
As a growing number of consumers struggle to pay down debt, banks and credit card companies are slashing available credit limits to reduce the amount they would lose if customers can't pay up. American Express, Capital One and Citigroup have all started reining in the amount of...
Articles 2008-11-04
More companies to fail
BUSINESS failures and personal insolvencies are set to rise dramatically over the next 18 months, a gloomy survey said today. A poll by insolvency industry trade body R3 suggested the recession was only now taking effect and the economy would not begin to recover for another year and...
Articles 2008-11-03
FiCentive Inc. Signs Prepaid Card Program Agreement with Discover Financial Services
SAN ANTONIO -- FiCentive (OTCBB: PYDS), a turn-key prepaid card and gift card solutions provider, announced today that it has signed an agreement with Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS), a leading credit card issuer and electronic payment services company, that allows for the creation and management of specific Discover Network...
Articles 2008-11-03
Wells Fargo Announces Cause-Related Giving Relationship With Morris Animal Foundation
DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Wells Fargo Financial Retail Services, a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company , said today it has begun a cause-related contribution relationship with Morris Animal Foundation. Wells Fargo Financial National Bank will donate a percentage of the annual sales volume from the...
Articles 2008-11-03
Kenneth R. Harney: Beware credit power washers
WASHINGTON With foreclosures, short sales and credit-card defaults at record levels, an aggressive breed of firms has sprung up offering to power- wash consumers' damaged credit files and boost credit scores -- thereby eliminating records of bankruptcies and mortgage delinquencies, even when the information is accurate. ...
Articles 2008-11-02
American Express is cutting 7,000 jobs to slash costs by $1.8B
NEW YORK -- In a stark acknowledgment of the tough times ahead in the credit card industry, American Express Co. said Thursday that it plans to cut 7,000 jobs, or about 10 percent of its worldwide work force, in an effort to slash costs by $1.8 billion in 2009. ...
Articles 2008-10-31
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