Archive for May, 2008
Ford Motor Credit Offers Financial Relief to Tornado Victims
Ford Motor Credit Company is offering customers affected by the recent devastating tornados in Iowa the option to delay some car payments. Ford Motor Credit’s Disaster Relief Program allows qualified customers to delay one or two monthly payments, resuming their regular payment schedules when their situations improve.
Ford Motor Credit customers who are eligible [...]
Bank of America to Participate in Deutsche Bank Securities Investor Conference Call
CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 30 /PRNewswire/ — Bank of America Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Kenneth D. Lewis will participate in a Deutsche Bank Securities investor conference call at 2 p.m. EDT on Monday, June 2. The call will be webcast and accessible through the Bank of America Investor Relations Web site at http://investor.bankofamerica.com/.
Bank of [...]
Woman and Two Men Arrested for Using Counterfeit Credit Cards
(From left) Jany Perez, Jaider Molina and Andersson Marquez.
Lakeland, Florida detectives have arrested a woman and two men Tuesday afternoon and charging them with using counterfeit credit cards to buy more than $22,000 in goods from Wal-Mart stores.Jany Perez (25), Andersson Marquez (30) and Jaider Molina(32) are being charged with grand theft and use [...]
9 Months of Free Credit Report Monitoring to Eligible Consumers
Today TransUnion announced that it will soon begin providing eligible U.S. consumers up to nine months of free credit monitoring and related services. The offering is part of a preliminary settlement of a lawsuit that has been pending for many years and arose from a business TransUnion discontinued in 2001. This offering is consistent with [...]
HSBC Launches ”Green” Credit Card
HSBC Finance Corporation’s card and retail services business has introduced a credit card that gives consumers the opportunity to use earned rewards to make a contribution to a variety of environmental causes. The HSBC ecosmartsm MasterCard with Plus Rewards leverages HSBC’s commitment to provide environmental-friendly products to a broad [...]
Using Credit Cards to Make Money
Making money off a credit card can seem impossible, but this is not true. There are many ways to make money or receive discounted prices on every day purchases. This can be difficult for those who do not have the will power to say no to the purchases that are not a necessity. Those are [...]
Three out of four Americans say they aren’t saving enough
A new analysis of Americans shows that most people are not saving as much as they should at the same time people do not seem to be too concerned about it according to Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends project.
Three out of four Americans say they are not saving enough, according to the survey [...]
Credit – How Important is it?
Everyday the television inundates us with commercial after commercial asking about your personal credit score. Is it good, bad, fair, or great? Do you know what it is? What does it really matter?
Daily advertisements tell the consumer to go to one place or another to obtain free credit scores. Unfortunately, once [...]
Citi and Banamex USA launch co-branded credit card
Through an ongoing pilot program available through eight Citibank financial centers in Texas and working with Citi Microfinance and Banamex USA, Citibank customers can now grant a shared-credit card to a friend or relative in Mexico with Banamex USA’s bi-national card program.
Citi said that this pilot program offers cash-back rewards, 24-hour access to accounts, additional [...]
Use a Meijer’s credit card and get 10 cents off a gallon of gas
Twin City drivers can save a little bit of money on their gas fill up, if they use a Meijer credit card at the store’s gas station.
Starting June 1st, Meijer will cut prices 10 cents per gallon for all of their customers who use a Meijer’s store card or the Meijer Platinum MasterCard, the company [...]
