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Credit card reform may be looming in the headlines, but for now the fine print is still hitting consumers hard. Banks keep raising minimum payments, interest rates and fees, even as cardholders are falling further behind. The rate at which banks are ...

Credit card rates continue to rise - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Advanta Corp. will pay up to $35 million in restitution to customers for alleged violations of federal consumer-protection and banking laws, the Spring House credit card company said yesterday. Advanta, which froze its small-business customers ...

Advanta customers to get restitution - Philiy.com

Congress took bold steps to reign in unfair credit card practices, passing the Credit Card Act of 2009. Thousands of consumers who saw their interest rates jacked up, their credit lines scaled back and their fees skyrocket, watched as President ...

Prepaid Cards, dangerous plastic? - BusinessWeek

The Government is considering the move along with a possible ban on credit card companies being allowed to increase credit limits without a borrower's consent. Proposals unveiled by the Government also include a new role of consumer advocate to ...

Credit card minimum monthly payments to increase in consumer shake-up - Daily Telegraph

Credit and store card interest rates could be capped for some customers Credit and store card interest rates could be capped for some customers under Government plans announced today. Finance firms could be stopped from increasing the interest rate ...

Credit cards could have interest rate capped to help those in debt - Daily Mail

Jackson County authorities have charged a south Kansas City man with several credit card thefts from an Independence health club. Brandon Harris, 28, was charged today with four counts of stealing a credit card or letter, and one count of forgery ...

Man charged with stealing credit cards at health club - Kansas City Star

The sweeping credit-card industry reforms don’t take effect until February 2010. But card issuers are wasting no time adjusting the fine print. This week, Bankrate released its inaugural Credit Card Study , which looks at the details of 20 cards ...

How Credit Card Companies Are Changing the Fine Print - Wall Street Journal

While an interagency rule on unfair and deceptive acts and practices in connection with credit cards (the UDAP rule) is scheduled to become effective a year from today (July 1, 2010), NCUA staff is consulting with staff at the Federal Reserve Board ...

NCUA Working with Other Regulators on Credit CARD Act and UDAP Rule - Bank Info Security

Sofia. Banks are turning many potential clients who apply for credit cards away, a research by The Telegraf daily shows. Despite the high interests banks gather in comparison with other products, the issuing of credit cards has fallen drastically ...

The axe falls heavy on credit cards - Focus Infomation

Lenders claim they increased the availability of credit to companies in the three months to June and forecast a further rise, in a Bank of England survey published yesterday, but economists and business leaders are sceptical. The British Chambers of ...