Payments/Credit/Debit

Card Analysis Solutions, a CU card consultancy run by Ondine Irving, has launched a Web site designed to help consumers find consumer-friendly credit union credit cards.

A Callahan & Associates Webinar reporting on credit unions' third quarter performance has drawn attention to how credit unions have stepped in to help consumers meet their credit needs as banks have retreated from the market.

Fair Isaac Corp., the company that developed and markets the FICO credit score, has rolled out a new subscription service that it said will help credit unions better measure borrower risk in the current economy.

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.

This week Credit Union Times takes a look back at a time when credit flowed like water and holiday spending was no problem with a wallet full of a plastic.