Credit Cards
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Banks Look to Cut Back on Credit Card Perks and Rewards
JPMorgan, Citigroup, American Express and other large banks are discussing how to cut back or rejigger some of their cards’ rewards. They want to encourage more card usage and scale back upfront bonuses.
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PNC Fights Fraud with Constantly Changing Credit Card Numbers
The technology, known as dynamic card verification, has an electronic ink display screen that generates a new CVV number at regular intervals throughout the day.
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Redeeming Hilton Points at 0.5c on Amazon Could Become Permanent Perk on Amex Cards
Hilton points can be redeemed at Amazon. That’s not talked about much and for good reason. You get a value of just 0.2 cents per point when using them that way, which considerably less than the 0.4 cents per point that it’s the average valuation for Hilton points. But on some occasions we have seen…
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Synchrony Ends Relationship with Stash Hotels
Synchrony issues the Stash Hotel Rewards Visa Card. I have covered the card in the past, when they had a 50K bonus that turned out to be a targeted offer 10K bonuses were issued instead. Now Synchrony and Stach Hotels are ending their partnership. The agreement between Synchrony and Stash for the Stash Hotel Rewards…
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Chase And Visa will Introduce Contactless Credit Cards
Chase is teaming up with Visa to bring tap to pay to the industry’s largest portfolio of credit cards. In the coming months, millions of Chase customers will be able to save valuable time by completing a transaction with a single tap. Starting later this year, Chase customers will receive new contactless Visa cards on…
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Walmart Sues Credit Card Issuer Synchrony Financial
Walmart has filed a lawsuit against Synchrony Financial, its credit card issuer for many years.
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New Lyft Card Will be Issued by Synchrony Bank
Ride sharing apps are entering the credit card game. Uber released its own card lat last year, issued by Barclays. It was actually a better than expected product, with 4% back on dining and 3% on hotels and airfare. Now Lyft has announced its own credit card. It was already known that they were looking…
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No Credit Score? No Problem… You Can Now Get the No-Fee Petal Credit Card
The Petal card that offers a no-fee credit line to people without a credit history, is now publicly available. The card launched earlier this year with a few thousand customers that have trialed the company’s credit card in a pre-release. Petal uses information from a customer’s bank account and payments to develop a credit score for…
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Chase Adds Feature to Lock/Unlock Credit Card
Chase has added a new feature for its credit card customers. Cardholders will now have the option to lock and unlock their cards immediately. The new feature has been added on the Chase website and app. If a credit card is locked, it stops purchases, cash advances and balance transfers on the account. It’s a…
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Credit Freezes Are Free Nationwide Starting Today
Credit freezes at the three major credit-reporting bureaus will be free across the U.S. starting today, September 21st, after a new federal law took effect.
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Chase’s New 48 Month Restriction Now Applies to Referrals Also
Last month, Chase started limiting bonuses for all Sapphire cards to one per 48 months, up from 24 months. However there was still a loophole through referral links which were showing the old 24 month language. Now that loophole has been closed as well, and all applications are showing the new 48 month restriction. Here’s…
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Some Barclays Cards Will Be Converted to Mercury Mastercards
Update 11/8/2018: As you can read from the comments in this post, Mercury’s customer service is somewhere from non-existent to terrible. Here’s some useful information provided by Ellie: “If you wish to mail your payment, please send the payment to: Card Services PO Box 70168 Philadelphia, PA 19176-0168” “If you wish to mail your payment…
