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Moody’s: 1Q credit card charge-offs reach record

The amount of uncollectable debt credit card companies wrote off in the first quarter reached a record high, but there are signs the problem is easing, Moody’s Investors Service said Friday.

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Blippy users’ credit card numbers exposed in Google search results

Sharing your credit card and online purchases with friends on the web sounds risky and it is.

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Blippy users’ credit card info exposed on Google

Credit card numbers of the social shopping site’s users were found in nearly 130 Google search results for “Blippy” and “from card,” according to a VentureBeat report.

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Social Media Blooper Exposes Users’ Credit Card Numbers

A service for broadcasting credit card transactions is also broadcasting the card numbers themselves

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AmEx, Capital One Reclaim Reserves as Credit-Card Defaults Wane

April 23 (Bloomberg) — American Express Co. and Capital One Financial Corp.

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Two wanted for credit card abuse

Authorities are looking for help identifying two people who went on a shopping spree with someone else’s credit card

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Credit card industry at turning point: report

Consumers are the winners when it comes to Canada’s evolving credit card market, Deloitte said in a report Thursday.

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Men sought in use of stolen credit card

Police are trying to identify two men who used a stolen credit card that was taken earlier this month from a woman leaving church and walking in the 3800 block of St. Gerard Avenue.

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ValidSoft Tackles Problem of Credit-card Blocking

ValidSoft is pushing forward with software it says banks can use to avoid unnecessarily blocking credit card transactions, an occasional frustration for travelers outside of their home country.

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Park credit-card machine stolen

The province is reviewing how often parking machines’ credit-card payments are collected at provincial parks after an electronic storage device holding credit-card information was stolen at Goldstream Provincial Park.

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