Credit reports easier to access
Program gives buyers more cost control
By Eileen Alt Powell
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - It’s become much easier for Americans to monitor their credit reports and scores, and that’s giving consumers more control over borrowing costs and an added defense against credit card fraud and identity theft.
Since Sept. 1, consumers nationwide can […]
The only 3 ways you can get free credit reports
By PAUL WENSKE
Columnist
OK, let’s run over this one more time.
From the volume of calls and e-mails I got, it’s clear some folks are still having trouble figuring out how to get a free credit report. It’s not hard, but some readers took a wrong turn somewhere.
So […]
Free credit reports prevent ID theft
By Peter Kranenburg Daily Universe Staff Reporter - 4 Nov 2005
College-age students are the most targeted group by credit card companies and one of the hardest hit consumer groups for identity theft according to a Federal Trade Commission report.
The danger of identity theft and the onslaught of credit card […]
Worried about ID theft? Freeze your credit reports
By Dennis Rockstroh
Mercury News
Q
My son just received a letter from his former employer reporting that the store had been broken into and personal information, including Social Security numbers of all employees, is missing.
Whom should my son contact to freeze all requests for credit?
And what else can he do […]
Debt Consolidation or Bankruptcy
By Christoph Puetz
Over the last decade Americans have accumulated excessive amounts of debt. Partially fueled by low interest rates and increased equity on houses due to real estate markets driving prices high up. Excessive spending and no financial responsibility often lead to bankruptcy of consumers. Now with the new bankruptcy law in […]
Visa expects boost in wave credit cards
By CHUAH BEE KIM
December 2 2005
PAYMENT solutions provider Visa International (Asia Pacific) Ltd is optimistic of issuing 600,000 wave credit cards in Malaysia by the end of next year.
With 120,000 wave credit cards in circulation today since the pilot launch of 4,000 cards last April, the company is expecting […]
By Michael Jivkov
Published: 05 December 2005
Greene King’s interim results tomorrow will provide the City with the first opportunity to find out how the pubs group is getting on with the integration of its Belhaven and Ridleys acquisitions. Following last week’s mega-deal in the sector (the purchase of Spirit Group by Punch Taverns) few analysts […]
Kathy Chu
USA Today
Dec. 2, 2005 09:06 AM
In need of toothpaste and ice, Laura Wadsworth dashed into a supermarket Monday in Mount Pleasant, S.C. She didn’t bring her wallet. Wadsworth paid by touching her index finger to a scanner. Ten seconds later, she was out the door.
A week before, Denise Day, a self-described “gas-station junkie,” grabbed […]
The growing use of credit and credit cards in America has changed the way we look at money, manage our debts and handle our mortgages. It has even changed the way we look at our homes.
Once upon a time, a family’s home was its castle. Today, for many people, it has become capital — a […]
GETTING STARTED
Credit cards leaky lifeboat for new grads
Carolyn Bigda
Published December 4, 2005
Over the past year, a slew of studies and surveys has raised concern about the number of college students who don’t pay off their credit cards in full each month–a whopping 79 percent, according to a May report by Nellie Mae, a […]