Use That College Credit Card Wisely: Advice for Parents and Students

With tuition rates soaring and student loans harder and harder to come by, the last thing today?s college student needs is a mountain of unsecured credit card debt to add to the pile. According to Nellie Mae, a major student loan corporation, the average college senior now carries over $2800 in credit card debt, and […] (more…)

Was Citi Stealing From You?

Have you ever accidentally paid your credit card bill twice? Or, returned a purchase, resulting in a credit on your bill? Well, if so, it appears that Citi may have been surreptitiously profiting off of you. According to California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr., between 1992 and 2003, Citibank’s computer systems […] (more…)

Back to School Offers from Citi

To mark the beginning of the school year, we have a couple of exclusive new student card offers from Citi. For a limited time through the following links, both the Citi® mtvUTM Platinum Select® Visa® Card for College Students and the Citi® Dividend Platinum Select® Visa® Card for College Students will offer double the […] (more…)

Proposed Credit Card Rules May Complicate Economic Turndown

When the Federal Reserve asked for comments on a proposed rule that would protect credit card customers from questionable lending practices regarding interest rates and payment cycles, over 56,000 outraged responses flooded in, most of them from card holders with horrendous personal stories and a variety of common but very troubling complaints.

Worst Practices Much Too […] (more…)

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