- Gradifi partners with Radius Bank to offer MasterCard to ease student loan debt by TechCrunch. Basically they are launching a Mastercard DEBIT card that earns 1% towards student loans. I swear Radius already offered something like this before, but I can’t seem to find it.
- Virgin America: 1,000 Bonus Points for Using Visa Checkout by Will Run For Miles. Unfortunately you need to pay for a Virgin America flight using Visa Checkout.
- American Express makes changes to EMV chargeback policy to limit fraud costs for merchants by Reuters. Merchants won’t be responsible for charge backs under $25. Dealing with chargebacks is extremely costly to merchants (not just when they have to pay for fraudulent transactions), so this should alleviate some pressure so they can better focus dealing on high value transactions.
- Uber Summer Discount On uberPOOL With Fares From $1.35 (Up To 80% Off uberX) in Atlanta, Georgia by Uber Codes. Loving this site, so easy to keep track of all the regional Uber discounts.
- United shuts down frequent flyer account due to heavy MPX usage by Miles Per Day. Seems a bit weird, but $2,500 in gift card volume daily is quite a lot I guess.
- Reader received this $5 from circle, they haven’t received any money in last 45 days. Useful account for meeting debit card requirements.
