Credit Card Crackdown (The Gourmet Retailer)

Credit card issuers striving for increased profitability are taking action by closing inactive accounts, lowering credit limits and raising rates and fees, reports Mintel Comperemedia. What's your credit card issuer up to?

Losses for credit card companies could top $70 billion in 2009 (The Economic Times)

Credit card cos have little to celebrate as many analysts brace for 2009 to be one of the worst years for consumer credit. Guarding credit card | Elastic with plastic

Discover Card Biodegrades Your Debt Away [Credit Cards] (Gizmodo)

While most of us can't avoid the convenience of credit cards (and their reusable nature is commendable), their plastics aren't so good. Now Discover has launched the US's first biodegradable credit...

Season brings more than cheer (McKinney Courier-Gazette)

Yeah, I heard the message on our answering machine. But we'd received the same one before. I wasn't worried. No need to rush a return call. Hours later I phoned our credit card company, just to ease their over-protective, fraud-fearing minds.

US credit card cos brace for worst year in '09 (The Economic Times)

US credit card companies have little to celebrate as many analysts brace for 2009 to be one of the worst years on record for consumer credit.