Citibank credit cards

Credit card companies look for holes in new rules - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Sweeping credit card reforms that kicked in Feb. 22 promised to snuff out the card industry's most abusive practices, but experts say it's no time for consumers to let their guard down. The Credit Card Responsibility and Disclosure Act will cut ...
Posted: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:15:00 GMT

What is your debit card costing you? - Pocono Record
Debit card users have been paying a mother lode in penalty fees — more than $1.7 billion a year — to cover purchases when their account balances won't. But unlike credit cards, the banks charge straight penalty fees for the advances, even if the ...
Posted: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:53:00 GMT

Who's stinging customers with unfair fees? - ninemsn
His story on how he thinks a $20 late fee turned into a $400 debt will surprise you ... The trap with balance transfer cards is how repayments are handled. In most instances payments made to your credit card account are first applied to any amounts ...
Posted: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:27:00 GMT

Q: What's included in every Yugo's owner's... - The Faster Times
So the 1984 Summer Olympic Games were in Los Angeles. The Soviets thought the CIA was going to drug Russian athletes and “trick” them into defecting so the Soviet Union and its allies refused to compete. The Americans were upset because we ...
Posted: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:04:00 GMT

Finally! Good news from credit card industry - CNN Money
Rates provided by Bankrate.com. Citibank ( C , Fortune 500 ), for example, is upping its miles-to-dollars ratio on American Airline-branded cards. Previously you received 1 mile for every dollar you spent. But now you can get 1.2 miles for every ...
Posted: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:52:00 GMT

Sharing Is Caring: Loose Lips Daily - Washington City Paper
He was a last-minute contributor, paying by credit card on Wednesday, according to the report. His fame grew with hits for Ashanti, Ja Rule and Jay-Z, although Lorenzo has since moved into reality TV. In 2005, he and his brother were acquitted of ...
Posted: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:00 GMT

Debt Management and Credit Card Debt Relief Success ... - PRWeb
For optimum credit card debt relief or debt management, using ... consumer-friendly banks, as it relates to the Debt Management Program, that issue credit cards, are Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, Target, Discover, Capital One and HSBC.
Posted: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:10:00 GMT

Citibank apologizes after exposing 600,000 Social ... - Accountingweb.com
Read any good envelopes lately? If you did and you have criminal intent, you might have just won the identity-theft lottery. Citibank representatives call it a processing error , which doesn’t sound too serious. But for more than half a million ...
Posted: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:17:00 GMT

Share this on Twitter - Naked Capitalism: "The Empire ... - DAILY KOS
Both the stock and the credit default swaps markets said that many of the big players were at serious risk of failure ... The history of financial crises showed that the least costly approach is to resolve mortally wounded organizations, install new ...
Posted: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:26:00 GMT

Manhattanite gets 3-9 years in Little Neck mortgage ... - New York Post
A 35-year-old Manhattan man has been sentenced to prison for having used a forged power of attorney to unlawfully obtain a mortgage on his mother-in-law’s Little Neck condominium and steal more than $300,000, the Queens district attorney said. Shih ...
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:59:00 GMT