Payments/Credit/Debit

CHICAGO -- Despite the ongoing mortgage crisis, a survey of credit card lending from one of the three big credit reporting bureaus found that credit card delinquency dropped in the first quarter of 2008.

WASHINGTON -- Retailers are trumpeting another U.S. Senator who has decided to sponsor the so called Credit Card Fair Fee Act of 2008 in the Senate. The newest sponsor is Senator Christopher "Kit" Bond (R-Mo). Bond is the first Republican co-sponsor for the measure in the Senate.

WASHINGTON -- Retailers are trumpeting another U.S. Senator who has decided to sponsor the so called Credit Card Fair Fee Act of 2008 in the Senate. The newest sponsor is Senator Christopher "Kit" Bond (R-Mo). Bond is the first Republican co-sponsor for the measure in the Senate.

HARRISBURG, PA -- In what may be a sign of the times, fourteen credit unions in Pennsylvania have signed up with a Pennsylvania Credit Union Association program which audits CU staff and volunteers' credit card accounts.

DENVER, Colo. -- Charging debit card holders more to use personal identification numbers than signatures to validate their debit transactions does not appear to significantly impact card holder behavior, a recent survey found.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- The $1.2 billion Polish and Slavic Federal Credit Union has launched a mobile branch to bring the CU closer to its steadily farther flung membership.