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Credit Card Charge-Offs Reach Highest Rate Since 2009

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Moody’s Investors Service reported Thursday (June 8) that credit card charge-offs — debts that are so delinquent that lending institutions have basically given up on collecting them — are at their highest rate since 2009 , possibly due to loosening lending standards. Capital One wasn’t far behind at 5.31 percent, up from 4.84

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As Consumers Take On More Debt, Credit Card Losses Rise

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consumers become more comfortable with carrying higher levels of debt, the biggest credit card companies reported an increase in chargeoffs in their portfolios during the first quarter of 2017. According to American Banker , the results suggest that the post-crisis era of exceptionally low losses in the credit card industry has ended.

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JPMorgan Takes On Square And PayPal At The Point Of Sale

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Using QuickAccept, SMBs can take payments through a mobile app or contactless card reader and get the funds instantly, with no fee. Before Square, launched by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey in 2009, SMBs had a hard time maneuvering point-of-sale (POS) card transactions. 21) CNBC report. Square, for example, charges a 1.5%

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U.S. Credit Card Delinquency Rates Inch Higher

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Credit card delinquencies increased for three consecutive months, adding to signs that consumers in the U.S. According to a news report in Reuters , credit card data from the likes of JPMorgan and Discover Financial Services on Monday (Oct. Meanwhile, Discover saw credit card delinquencies increase by 1.64 percent from August.

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FDIC Approves Square For Banking License

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was formed in 2009 as a payment services provider to enable businesses to accept card payments. One of the conditions would require the proposed bank to maintain levels of capital that are significantly higher than typical FDIC-insured banks,” FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams said a statement. Square, Inc.

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Citigroup Credit Card Charge-Offs Higher Than Some Peers

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The credit card companies are out with data on May credit card charge-offs, which shows a mixed bag among the different players in the industry. Take Capital One, the credit card company, for starters. Meanwhile credit card delinquencies fell to 3.47 Auto charge-offs also decreased at the credit card company to 1.41

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Wild Cards? Gambling, Payroll, Other Models Provide Fresh Fuel For Prepaid

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Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only half the battle. To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009.

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