LOS ANGELES -- The chairman and chief executive of American Express Co. received a compensation package valued at $22.5 million for 2011, a 38 percent...

If one of your New Year's resolutions is to pay off your credit card debt, be advised that it's getting harder all the time. That's because credit car...

ST. LOUIS, June 17 (Thomson Reuters Accelus) - Marijuana dispensaries in states that have legalized medical pot are struggling to obtain service f...

Business and consumer credit cards are actually more similar than they are different, which therefore begs the question, should the Credit CARD Act of 2009 apply to business credit cards?

As the United States comes out of the Great Recession, we must critically examine the causes of this economic swoon and make adjustments in order to prevent such an event from ever occurring again.

If you have excellent credit, there's a good chance that you have a Visa Signature credit card, a World MasterCard credit card or an American Express charge card. If this is, indeed, the case, you might be in for one nasty surprise.

Just as banks are beginning to loosen up the reins a bit, the credit-card companies have been ratcheting up their restrictions -- something that can h...

After the recession forced credit card companies to purge their rosters of the riskiest loans, the industry is facing a new problem: customers who are...

NEW YORK — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday proposed strict limits on penalty fees and other charges that credit card companies can slap on cust...

A new federal credit-card law that takes effect Monday could erase billions of dollars a year in fees and interest charges paid by consumers. But card...

The new rules, which go into full effect on February 22, threaten to take a big bite out of the $15 billion in penalties and fees that the industry co...

I am writing a novel. It is about the next Great Recession that will occur in this decade. The book's subtext will cite the next Great Real Estate Bub...

Update at 9:03 AM Friday: Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover have now all announced that they will waive fees for some donations related...

While Congress is calling on credit card companies to stop hiking interest rates before the new Credit CARD act goes into effect, Citigroup just sent me a letter with a monstrous interest rate hike.

Could debit cards be the next cash cow for banks? If banks have their way, they will. Americans have conducted more transactions and spent more money...

A new survey from comScore clears up some of the mystery and confirms that Americans are, in fact, voting with their wallets. Consumers are protesting...

All four major credit card companies -- Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover -- have waived or rebated their processing fees on donations ...

WASHINGTON — Banks expect to tighten terms on credit cards in response to a new law that aims to protect consumers from sudden rate hikes, the F...

NEW YORK — Struggling credit card holders fell behind on their payments in October at the highest rate in five months, according to Fitch Rating...