The joint use of credit cards in the Couple

Many couples have only one truly banked person in the relationship. It may be that only one person works, and another person stays home. Or, in this era of rising student loan bills, only one person puts their name on credit cards and mortgage loans to make it easier to qualify for financing. Other couples might have skeletons in their closet – one person has poor credit from decisions made long ago.

Mortgage Rates Flat To Slightly Higher

Mortgage rates are somewhat higher again today after news out of Europe created market momentum overnight in favor of higher stock prices and higher bond yields.  When bond yields move higher, mortgage rates are generally moving higher as well although today's rates did a fairly good job of holding steady at the prevailing best execution rate of 3.5% for 30yr Fixed Conventional Loans.

Fraud strikes 1 % of credit card transactions

Twice as many credit card fraud cases involve phone or online transactions than retail sales, according to new data from FICO. However, researchers found that sophisticated counterfeit rings have raised the stakes for merchants over the most recent twenty month survey period.

Capital One offering pricing of Secondary Common Stock

Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE: COF) today announced that it has entered into an underwriting agreement under which selling stockholder ING Bank N.V. has agreed to sell all of its 54,028,086 shares of Capital One common stock pursuant to a previously announced resale offering. 

Chase and MasterCard enhanced small business with credit card

Times are tough for many owners of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) at the moment, so anything that helps smooth or improve their working lives is usually very welcome. Perhaps that's why Chase and MasterCard both independently decided to announce enhancements to their small business credit cards in July.
Small business credit cards get better