The trend could enable cardholders to pay down credit card balances, which have risen in recent years. Merchants and credit ...

The move, announced by Citi CEO Jane Fraser in January, is garnering attention just as many companies are calling their employees back into the office full time. Citi is the third-largest bank in the ...

If merchants are spending that much in interchange on sales tax, consider how much money businesses that call for a gratuity ...

The rising popularity of Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) solutions raises questions for lenders that don’t have a standardized way ...

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JetBlue’s Premier World Elite Mastercard is the latest credit card to offer premium rewards to cardholders. Premium credit ...

Neither Capital One nor Discover are in financial distress leading up to the shareholder vote. Capital One topped earnings ...

Tokenization transforms payment information into a digital representation — or token — that is unique to the cardholder and the merchant where the cardholder is making a payment, meaning criminals who ...

Note the word independent. That is where things get problematic. Because the CFPB is independent, it doesn’t rely on Congress ...

Despite what you may believe, consumers with bad credit have many credit card options. You can quickly get a secured credit card by putting down a deposit equal to your credit line, or you can choose ...

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