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Do you feel your credit card information is safe when you shop online? Two newly released reports may give you reason to pause before you answer that question.
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What are you giving up for Lent this year? The Methodist Church of Britain has a theme for Lent that can best be described as the anti-credit card campaign.
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In the latest earnings announcements from major U.S. credit card issuers, both J.P. Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo said their net income declined in the fourth quarter, even as both banks appeared to avoid the full impact of the subprime meltdown.
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Second Life is an Internet-based, virtual world where users interact using avatars (a virtual character you use to represent yourself). Residents create goods (buildings, cars, clothes) and services, and buy and sell them. Members can buy virtual "land." Religious groups meet and singles mingle. Several countries have virtual embassies and many real-world universities have virtual classrooms in Second Life. The virtual world has its own currency: the Linden Dollar. Second Life was once criticized for its lack of moderation, but due to the misuse of the Linden Dollar, it has recently banned virtual gambling and unchartered banks.
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Cool: The Federal Trade Commission, as part of its effort to fight identity theft, wants feedback on one of the newest ID-theft tools -- the credit freeze.
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In "Mission Impossible," "Minority Report," James Bond movies and even "The Terminator," eyes, fingers and voices are scanned to identify people and give access to secure places and objects. This futuristic type of identification technology, called biometrics, has been featured in movies for decades. Now it is a reality, and it may be the way of the future when it comes to credit cards.
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American Express sounded a serious warning for the payment card industry yesterday, acknowledging that its cardholders both reduced their spending and were less able to pay their credit card bills in the final month of 2007.
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It looks like the subprime mortgage debacle has begun to spill over to credit cards, with issuer Capital One slashing its earnings outlook amid rising credit card delinquencies.
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Consumers relied heavily on credit cards to drive their spending in the run-up to the holiday season, according to recently published consumer credit statistics from the Federal Reserve.
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Credit card issuers' reliance on fees edged up another notch in 2007, according to the annual profit/loss estimate put out by respected credit card industry analyst and investment banker R.K. Hammer.
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