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Credit Card Joke #1
Fred said to his buddy Steve as they were getting ready to leave the sports bar, “Do you mind picking up the tab? My credit card was stolen last week.” Steve then replied, “No problem. Have you reported the card stolen yet?” Fred...
American Express Tops J.D. Power’s Credit Card Customer Satisfaction Study
J.D. Power and Associates’ 2008 study on overall credit card satisfaction was recently released with American Express taking top honors. Among the 7,600 credit card users that J.D. Power surveyed, American Express took top honors in all five rat...
Interest Rate and Fee Hikes
In this current economic environment, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that financial institutions are changing the way they do business; especially as it pertains to their lending of capital. Mortgage companies are tightening their lending stan...
Credit Card Comparison
With so many credit cards to choose from today, it can be somewhat of an overwhelming task for consumers to decide which card best suits them. Card issuers offer a wide variety of affinity or co-branded cards to entice consumers to apply for, and u...
Credit Card Issuers
As defined in an earlier post, credit card issuers are those financial institutions that issue credit cards and send the monthly bills to their customers for purchases made against the cards. But who are credit card issuers? Well, below we hav...
Credit Card Definitions
Affinity Card - A credit card offered by a lending institution and a non-financial organization, such as a school or airline, which bears the logos of both on the face of the card. Affinity cards often entitle its card holders to special rewards fro...

