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CardMartPlus Pre-paid debit/Visa cards will change the way Individuals, especially Hispanics in the U.S. send money to their families and friends in their Motherland. CardMartPlus’s debit cards will
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MANHATTAN BEACH, California / PR FREE / Dec 19 2004 –
“I can’t believe that I finally found a fair priced service to send money to my […]
By JANE J. KIM
January 16, 2008; Page D9
Banks are offering bonuses to get customers to make deposits to their savings accounts more often.
Wachovia Corp. this month began offering a savings account, dubbed Way2Save, that pays a 5% annual yield for the first year, plus an additional 5% annual bonus on the account balance at the end of […]
1/16/2008 10:58 AM
By Chris Dickerson -Statehouse Bureau
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CHARLESTON - A nearly $12 million settlement with MasterCard and Visa happened because of a number of factors, according to the state’s Chief Deputy Attorney General
Fran Hughes said Wednesday that the $11.6 settlement, reached Monday and announced Tuesday, can be attributed to, among other things, long hours, forward-looking legislators, […]
Sweepstakes Winner Gets Ten Times Value of Tax Refund
CINCINNATI, OH (September 24, 2007) UniRush Financial Services, the financial services company co-founded by media and business mogul Russell Simmons, has announced that Cynthia Williams, a cardholder of the company’s popular BabyPhat Prepaid Visa RushCard, has won the Visa National Tax Time Promotion. Created by Visa during […]
By Rick Redding It’s taken centuries for the evolution of payments to advance from simple bartering of goods and services into the complex technology-driven transactions of today. But the revolution some predict for the far-off future could come as soon as 2008, as providers race to roll out new technology to give consumers more […]
Social Security Benefit Recipients Targeted
By Gene RetskeThe debit card market is about to get a quantum leap in users, courtesy of the U.S. government. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Management Service (FMS) has announced that millions of unbanked Americans receiving Social Security will soon be offered a prepaid debit card for benefit payments. […]
New program designed to hold credit card issuers accountable…
Over the past few years, credit card companies have been under increased scrutiny by consumer advocates and lawmakers. The proposed Credit Card Safety Star Act of 2007 is designed to hold them accountable. The new program, introduced by U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Barack Obama (D-IL), calls for ratings of […]
Gail MarksJarvis January 11, 2008
If you pay attention to advertising, you’ve probably heard Capital One ask, “What’s in your wallet?”
The credit card company, of course, wants the answer to be: a Capital One card.
But in the […]
Way2SaveSM Offers Easy Ways to Save, Plus High Yields and Account Bonuses
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Wachovia is helping American consumers with at least one New Year’s resolution with the launch of Way2Save, a new and innovative savings program that makes it easy and automatic to save money.
Way2Save encourages customers to save by transferring $1 from their checking account […]
