Timothy Kolk

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  Affinity Cards Present New Opportunity to Consider

  October 31, 2012

  A new opportunity has surfaced for credit union credit card issuers: the chance to offer affinity-branded credit cards. To be fair, this type of program is not new, but the marketplace has changed enough to make it a reasonable path for credit unions to consider for the first time. And...

• Callahan and TRK Advisors to Offer Credit Card School

  By Staff Writer  |  December 19, 2011

  Four online modules and recordings in series to begin in April.

• Interchange Rules May Be a Gift

  February 9, 2011

  After reading repeated articles about credit union and trade association opposition to the proposed debit card interchange changes, I have found myself repeatedly coming back to the same question. Why?

• Credit Card Programs and Mergers: Watch Out!

  January 26, 2011

  By now nearly every credit card issuer understands that the CARD Act and the new normal has changed the way credit card programs must be managed.

• Beware of Card Brokers Bearing 'Free' Reviews

  June 16, 2010

  If you sell your credit card portfolio there is a very good chance that the broker will make more money from that sale than you will.