In great news for consumers, MasterCard has wisely decided to cover transactions made with a personal identification number (PIN) under their zero fraud liability protection. This means that both ATM and chip & PIN transactions will... Read More →
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eBay Will Not Offer Customers Free Credit Monitoring After Their Data Breach
In case you haven’t heard, recently hackers gained access to up to 145 million eBay user accounts. According to eBay the following information has been compromised: Encrypted passwords E-mail addresses Birth dates Mailing... Read More →
Experian Sees Writing On The Wall, Still Doesn’t Provide Free Scores
Experian released an interesting article about the push for government mandated free credit scores. It looks like this is finally going to become a reality, with a strong push being made with the new SECURE act which has provisions for... Read More →
Almost 40% Of Landlords Will Check Your Credit Before Leasing Property
According to a new study by the credit bureau TransUnion, 43% of landlords will do a credit check as part of the leasing process. Other key statistics included: 48% of those using credit checks said that they were in the top three most... Read More →
AmEx To Tighten The Controls On Credit Card Churning
According to Dans Deals, AmEx will be tightening the screws when it comes to people who attempt to earn multiple sign up bonuses for the same credit card (often referred to credit card churning). Starting from May 1st, 2014 consumers... Read More →
Delta Announces New Award Chart, One Way Award Flights & Miles + Cash Option
Delta has released details of their new awards program for 2015 onwards, for the most part these changes seem to be positive. But it’ll be impossible to really tell until we can see the award availability for the different levels... Read More →
Southwest Announces Flights To Cancun And San Jose Cabo Starting 10th Of August
Southwest has announced that they were be operating flights to Cancun and San Jose Cabo starting from the 10th of August, 2014. Unlike other airlines where you pay a fixed number of miles to a destination, Southwest charges you miles... Read More →
Fidelity American Express Cards To Be 2% For At Least Another 18 Months
The new Fidelity card is still 2% back, but no longer on the American Express payment network. NYtimes’ Robert Neubecker had a piece of why it might be a good idea to bail out of frequent flyer programs. It was an interesting... Read More →
AmEx To Offer Two New Credit Cards
American Express announced that they will offer two new credit cards Amex EveryDay and Amex Everyday Preferred, during the Academy Awards with three ad spots that featured Tina Fey. You can view those ads below, skip down further for... Read More →
Chase To Offer Chip & Pin Cards Sometime In 2014
On Tuesday of this week (25th, February, 2014) Chase CEO, Eileen Serra announced that they would be offering Chip & Pin cards sometime in 2014 at Chase’s investor conference. This has become a hot issue recently with a spate... Read More →
Capital One Sending Out New Terms Of Service Stating They Can Turn Up At Your Place Of Residence…
[Update: February 18th] Somebody kindly pointed out that all new credit card agreements have to be posted to the CFPB by law. You can view the latest agreement for the Capital One Best Buy card here. We’ve highlighted the key... Read More →
State Of Credit 2013
State of Credit is a fun little thing that Experian has been doing for the past four years. It’s basically an interactive map that shows VantageScore data. You can segment by generation (66+, 47-65, 30-46 & 19-29) and you can... Read More →
[Expired] Small Business Saturday – November 30th 2013 – American Express
Being a small business owner and having a number of friends and family with small businesses I am always grateful when the spotlight is shone on us. American Express have confirmed that they will be running their small business saturday... Read More →
Free FICO Scores For FNBO Cardholders
The First National Bank of Omaha was one of the initial launching partners for the FICO open score access program. Accessing your FICO score Log into firstnational.com Click “services” tab Scroll to “additional... Read More →
Free FICO Scores Coming To Discover
Discover has announced that card holders will be able to access their credit scores for free, they claim to be the first credit card issuer to offer this benefit but I think Walmart & Barclaycard would like a word. The free score... Read More →