Category - Credit Cards

We’ve talked about downgrading credit cards before, which is usually the process of turning a credit card with an annual fee into one that doesn’t have an annual fee. Increasingly credit card issuers are allowing you... Read More →

American Express are making a number of changes to the value you receive when you redeem membership rewards points. Before anybody freaks out, this will not affect any travel transfer partners. In fact most of the options that are... Read More →

I like making predictions, sometimes they make me look like Nostradamus and other times they make me look stupid. Regardless of the outcome I think it’s interesting to speculate and I hope readers also enjoy these types of posts... Read More →

The European Parliament have voted in favor of a piece of regulation which will cap the interchange fees charged in processing consumer debit and credit card processing. The regulation is titled “Regulation on Interchange Fees for... Read More →

Recently BBVA Compass announced that they were going to offer a NBA co-branded credit card, this called is officially called the BBVA Compass NBA American Express Card Featuring TripleDouble Rewards. This card has finally launched, so I... Read More →

The Offer Direct link to offer Spend $500 or more within three months and receive a $100 Amazon gift card as a sign up bonus The Fine Print No annual fee Rotating 5% categories Free FICO Score Our Verdict A lot of people don’t... Read More →

A few days ago, Drew from Travel is Free pointed out that the Chase Amtrak credit card was no longer displaying on the Chase website and the landing pages for that card were redirecting to the general Chase credit card page. At the time... Read More →

The Offer Earn a $50 statement credit after your first purchase and 50,000 Hilton HHonors points after you spend $750 or more within the first three months on the Hilton HHonors card from American Express. Here is how to get this offer:... Read More →

Discover doesn’t have wide acceptance internationally, what they do have is partnerships with other payment networks. These partnerships allow you to use your card where ever these other cards are also accepted. Below are the... Read More →

It has long been know that it’s possible to request a credit limit increase from American Express without a hard pull being done. When you request this increase, American Express is incredibly generous. They will usually approve... Read More →

We’ve made reference to the October EMV chip liability shift in the past many times. Yesterday reader, JB alerted me to the fact that I’ve never really discussed what this liability shift is, why it’s happening and how... Read More →

This is another post in our Weird Wednesday series where we look at credit cards that aren’t often talked about. You can view more posts in this series by clicking here. Chase cards are talked about a lot, so it’s a bit... Read More →