August 11, 2008 Archives

Dan Ray

Loan officers' survey: Credit card lending standards tighten sharply

Dan Ray |  August 11, 2008 | Research, regulation, industry reports
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Credit card issuers sharply tightened lending standards in July, hiking rates, slashing credit limits and generally getting stingier about issuing cards, according to a Federal Reserve survey released Monday afternoon.
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Jeremy Simon

Criminal Charges: Volume II

Jeremy Simon |  August 11, 2008 | Credit card miscellany
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Welcome to the second edition of my ongoing look at credit cards and crime. I've found that it isn't hard to come up with a weekly batch of stories that involve the criminal use and abuse of credit cards: The challenge involves finding those stories that stand out by being truly stupid or especially strange.
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