May 27, 2008 Archives


Gas card giveaways, raffles and promotions are all the rage, but use those cards quickly.

This past Earth Day, I put together a feature on all the "green" credit cards available in the United States. We can now add another one to the list: HSBC North America has just launched its own environmentally-friendly card (interestingly, Leonardo DiCaprio was promoting the Chinese version of it in Hong Kong earlier this year).

An ailing economy means emptier mailboxes. Financial service companies -- and especially credit card issuers -- have sharply cut back their direct mail offers according to research released Tuesday.

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