| (3/27/97)RCA MasterCard Thomson Consumer Electronics and MBNA joined together yesterday to issue the 'RCA MasterCard', which could become the largest cobranded program to be launched this year. -READ MORE |  |
(3/27/97)Credit Lyonnais AmEx Corp Card American Express signed up another banking partner yesterday with the announcement of the 'Credit Lyonnais American Express Corporate Card'. Credit Lyonnais will offer the card to French corporations. Details of the program are still being negotiated however current plans call for a launch before June 30. -READ MORE |
| (3/27/97)Fed Postal Card NationsBank and the U.S. Postal Service kicked off a national pilot yesterday of the 'Federal Postage Payment Card'. The card, to be used exclusively by federal agencies, offers a pre-assigned credit limit and is restricted to postal purchases. Eligible purchases include meter resettings, business reply mail, permit imprints, 'Express Mail', money orders, traveler's checks, COD's, and passport fees. -READ MORE | |
(3/27/97)New Baseball Cards First USA announced Tuesday it signed agreements with four Major League Baseball teams to issue and market their affinity cards beginning April 1. The Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners, Florida Marlins and the Philadelphia Phillies will all offer First USA 'Classic', 'Gold' and 'Platinum' cards. -READ MORE |
| (3/26/97)AT&T Fraud Tips On April Fool's Day, "F" almost always stands for "Fun," as people devise pranks - from the simple to the exotic - to amuse their friends. But for some unscrupulous con artists, "F" stands for "Fraud" on April 1st and every other day of the year. -READ MORE | |
(3/26/97)Internet Privacy an Oxymoron?? Cookies and milk ain't what they used to be. "Magic Cookies," according to John Eckhouse, Senior Editor/Online HomePC, are "little crumbs of information that a Web site downloads to your computer's hard drive -- usually without your knowledge -- when you visit, and reads each time you return." -READ MORE |
| (3/25/97)Advanta Alive & Kickin Despite the pounding Advanta took on Wall Street last week in the wake of a projected first quarter loss, the card issuer has not closed the door for new accounts. Yesterday the card specialist announced it is expanding its 'Comcast Rewards VISA Card' to Comcast's 300,000 cable customers in the Philadelphia area. -READ MORE | |
(3/25/97)Low-Income Debt An economist with DRI/McGraw-Hill said yesterday there is a disproportionate acceleration of credit card debt among lower-income Americans. Dr. David Wyss says a full 27% of families with household income below $10,000 now have credit card obligations that exceed 40% of their income. -READ MORE |
| (3/24/97)Fed Rate Hike There is a major consensus this morning the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates Tuesday with a projected 25 basis points increase. While the effects of the rate increase were discounted in the stock market last week the effect on consumer loan rates will begin showing up as early as April 1. -READ MORE | |
(3/24/97)Digital Newstand CardWeb, Inc.'s 'CardFlash' and 'CardTrak' will be available beginning this week via CyberCash's new 'Digital Newstand'. -READ MORE |
| (3/21/97)MCI's Easter Phone Cards With Easter only days away, MCI and Forbes Magazine have teamed up to produce an exclusive set of one dozen collectible prepaid calling cards commemorating the FORBES' Imperial Egg Collection(TM) by Peter Carl Faberge'. -READ MORE | |
(3/21/97)Avoiding 900 Phone Scams If you've ever been surprised to find unwanted charges for calls to 900 numbers or other services, there are steps you can take to protect yourself, according to Ameritech. -READ MORE |
| (3/20/97)American Express Blue Card for Taiwan As reported in yesterday's CardFlash American Express has introduced a revolving credit card in Taiwan. The new card will be the first AmEx card offered with a new blue color and design scheme. American Express says its will market the new 'Blue' credit card to its current 200,000 charge cardholders in Taiwan as well as the general public. -READ MORE | |
(3/20/97)Medican EMCard Endorsed The California Medical Association, representing 35,000 California physicians, has officially endorsed EMCard, a simple card that gives physicians immediate access to an individual's medical record anywhere in the world. -READ MORE |
| (3/17/97)CyberCash Push CyberCash will announce today that Web site 'SportsZone', a joint venture of Walt Disney and Starwave Corp, will begin offering online visitors the option of paying a daily $1 access fee via the 'CyberCash Wallet' and 'CyberCoin' service. -READ MORE | |
(3/17/97)CardFlash via CyberCash CardWeb, Inc. will announce later this week daily online access to this publication, CardFlash and to the firm's popular consumer credit card newsletter CardTrak. Both publications will be available via CyberCash's new 'Digital Newstand'.Both firms signed agreements for the new service last week. -READ MORE |
| (3/12/97)Millicent Payment System Coming The first microcommerce system that will enable millions of Internet users to buy and sell information profitably, down to fractions of a cent was announced yesterday by Digital Equipment Corporation. -READ MORE | |
(3/12/97)GE Biz Card Heads North GE Capital announced Tuesday it is launching a 'MasterCard Corporate Card' program in Canada. GE says the launch is part of its concentrated effort to integrate a centrally managed corporate payment network specifically targeting countries of operation identified as critical to its corporate clients. -READ MORE |
| (3/12/97)New Major Calling Card US WEST Communications and Frontier Corporation will announce today plans to issue more than four million calling cards in fourteen states in mid-April. The 'US WEST Express 1-800 Long Distance Calling Card' will be offered in US WEST's 14-state territory and represents a major entry into the calling card market by US WEST. -READ MORE | |
(3/4/97)New Trading Cards Quick & Reilly Inc. and MBNA America introduced the 'Quick & Reilly Platinum Plus VISA' yesterday offering discounts on trading commissions based on VISA purchase volume. For every $1,000 charged or transferred to the new VISA cardholders will earn a 10% savings coupon good towards a future equity trade with Quick & Reilly. -READ MORE |
| (3/4/97)Sony Brazil AmEx Card Sony Brazil and American Express announced Monday the 'Sony Card Entertainment American Express' for buyers of Sony products in Brazil. -READ MORE | |
(3/3/97)CardGame 1996 Grand Prize Winners CardWeb, Inc.'s 'CardGame', an interactive game played via RAM's web site, announced the 'Grand Prize Winners' for 1996 this morning. The consumer contest winner is Ms. Christie Lange of Alexandria, Virginia and the executive contest winner is Mr. Ray DeYoung of the Tandy Corporation in Ft. Worth, Texas. -READ MORE |
