As perhaps could be expected, the congressionally mandated report from the General Accountability Office on credit card interchange released last month contained a little something for all sides of the card interchange debate.

Large card issuers have largely not abandoned their anticonsumer attitudes and practices that helped bring about the most recent credit card regulation, four nationwide consumer groups have charged.

Call it a hard candy holiday season, but this year almost half of consumers surveyed plan to use any cash they are given as holiday gifts to help meet expenses like groceries, gas and other household expenses.

Despite repeated assertions that the economy has moved out of the recession and is moving toward recovery, a major card brand's recent survey of small business owners finds pessimism still dominant.

With credit unions suffering across the country, the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions has begun stepping up its efforts to make sure that regulators and government officials don't forget about the needs of CDCUs

Credit unions already working the U.S. Government's Home Affordable Modification Program will likely face additional paperwork from proposed program changes, but will lack the volume of loans for those changes to have much of an impact.

ATM skimming, capturing card holders card information by way of devices often attached to or placed around an ATM while they use the machine, has been slow to catch on the U.S. But Chicago thieves have been catching up.

Citing scheduling and logistic problems, the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions has canceled its Dec. 3 seminar on credit unions and the Community Reinvestment Act.