(1/29/98)Casino Card
MBNA and MS-based Casino America, Inc. rolled out their new
'Isle of Capri Casino MasterCard' Wednesday. Cardholders will earn
cashback as well as receive discounts at Capri Casino food and
beverage outlets.
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(1/29/98)Best Travel Card Awards 
The suspense is over, InsideFlyer finally announced the winners of the 10th Annual Freddie Awards in association with MCI and American Express SkyGuide at the Westin New York Hotel.
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(1/28/98)Visa Business Check Card 
Writing business checks may soon be a thing of the past for small business if the new 'VISA Business Check Card' takes hold. Following extensive tests by seven U.S. issuers, VISA announced yesterday its new off-line debit card for business. -READ MORE | |
(1/23/98)Visa's Golf School Tees Off 
The renowned Nicklaus/Flick Golf School will launch its 1998 Touring Programs with three unique instructional programs for Atlanta-area golfers at the Cherokee Run Golf Club.
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(1/21/98)ATM Backlash
A new study released this morning shows 78% of ATM consumers actively avoid ATMs with fees. The Opinion Research Corporation study also revealed that 67% of ATM customers say ATM fees discourage them from considering the fee-charging bank for other products and services. -READ MORE | |
(1/16/98)Olympic Cards 
First USA unveiled its 'Platinum VISA Nagano 1998 Collection' credit cards yesterday. The collection, of thirteen designs, features a variety of commemorative limited edition designs, some of which celebrate past U.S. golden Olympic moments. -READ MORE |
(1/15/98)Nagano ATMs 
VISA said yesterday it has now placed 17 international ATMs on and off the venues at the '1998 Olympic Winter Games' in Nagano, Japan. Of the 130,000 ATMs throughout Japan, only 700 accept international cards and just a handful of those are located in the Nagano metro area.-READ MORE | |
(1/14/98)VISA Sends Young Artists to Olympics
Artistic talents and creative imaginations will send five children from the United States to the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan next month.
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(1/12/98)Delta SkyMiles Soars
The 'American Express Delta Airlines SkyMiles Optima' card grew 140% last year to become the nation's largest cobranded airline bank credit card program, according to a research report released today by Brittain Associates of Atlanta. -READ MORE | |
(1/9/98)Comical AmEx American Express will debut a new network TV commercial this weekend in conjunction with the NFL playoffs featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Superman. -READ MORE |
(1/7/98)Driver's Edge Card
Citibank unveiled its replacement for the 'Ford Citibank VISA/MasterCard' yesterday. The new 'Driver's Edge VISA/MasterCard' offers cardholders the ability to earn rebates toward the purchase or lease of any new vehicle, regardless of make or model. -READ MORE | |
(1/5/98)Discover Dinosaur Contest Winner
Justin Hofmann, 6, of Newton, New Jersey, knows why long-necked dinosaurs have long tails, understands the difference between the Triassic and Cretaceous periods and has his own theory of why dinosaurs vanished from the earth 65 million years ago.-READ MORE |
(1/5/98)Dec 20 Biggest Shopping Day 
A pre-Christmas mini-surge in spending boosted same-store sales for the holiday shopping period to 2.2 percent over the same period last year, according to TeleCheck Services, the world's leading check acceptance company.
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(1/5/98)VISA Racks Up $36 Billion
Visa U.S.A. reported today that holiday shoppers in the United States rang up
more than $35.5 billion in retail purchases on Visa payment cards from the day
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