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NEW YORK, Nov. 26, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As we approach the 2014 holiday season, there are signs for cautious optimism on consumer spending. For example, the U.S. has experienced slow but steady...

NEW YORK, N.Y., Aug. 19, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Becoming the first credit card in a person's wallet has long-term financial benefits for banks; the average account tenure is 17.4 years. Further,...

NEW YORK, N.Y., June 3, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The first quarter 2014 Payments Expectations Index moved sharply higher from its 2013 year end indication. The key driver for the improvement was the...

NEW YORK, May 20, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Over the years, American consumers have gained greater transparency on credit reporting. For example, in 2003, The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) was...

NEW YORK, June 18, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Prepaid cards serve a variety of consumer needs, and the profile of consumers who buy prepaid cards is sometimes incorrectly presumed to be predominantly...

NEW YORK, June 14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- While businesses of all types are still learning to navigate the social media frontier, it seems that banks and credit card companies are lagging a bit...

NEW YORK, May 21, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Credit card companies are always interested in ways of increasing card usage. One potential way to do that is by encouraging the use of personal cards to...

NEW YORK, May 10, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rewards credit cards are as popular today as they've ever been according to recent research from Cardbeat®, a syndicated research report published by...

NEW YORK, March 12, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Almost all forecasts which have looked into the subject have found that a majority of new mobile phones sold in the U.S. market are likely to be...

NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Much has been reported about the challenging employment outlook for recent college graduates, even though most still manage to find full-time jobs. It is...