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Revolut Launches Price Comparison Service In UK

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FinTech Revolut is working with Decision Tech , a price-comparison technology company, to launch a new service to help users compare — and switch — providers of gas, electricity, broadband, mobile and TV. Davies is leaving to take over Allica Bank, which specializes in lending to businesses. according to an emailed release.

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Tide Revamps SMB Overdraft, Card Offerings With Mambu

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Cloud banking platform Mambu will help business banking platform Tide expand its services , including innovations in releasing larger overdrafts, credit cards and invoice financing, according to a press release from Mambu. Tide especially wants to use the partnership to focus on bolstering small and medium-sided businesses (SMBs) in the U.K.

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JPMorgan, Other Big Banks Front-Load $66B To Cover Bad Loans

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Some are more exposed to credit card debt and lending to oil and gas companies. banks have stopped lending as much to European businesses as well, showing the home bias that is expected during a financial crisis. European banks, by comparison, have earmarked $11.5 However, U.S. billion for the effort.

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Amex Cardholder Spend Averages $4800, Up 5 Percent In 2Q

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TheStreet may have been focused on top-line shortfalls, but beyond the headline numbers, American Express (Amex) posted results for the second quarter that showed double-digit percentage growth across a number of key metrics, including card-billed business and the company’s lending business. Within that tally, the U.S.

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The Final CFPB Prepaid Card Rule Is Here (Expect Controversy)

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The use of prepaid cards has exploded over the last decade or so — in 2003 consumers put less than $1 billion on prepaid cards annually, but by 2012 that figure had grown to $65 billion and by 2018 that figure is projected to reach as much as $121 billion. The user base of prepaid cards has grown significantly as well.

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America’s Daunting Debt Picture

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household debt could hit $4 trillion primarily in the form of credit cards and auto loans, which have been steadily climbing. By itself, that’s not terrible news: Debt is a tool — one that many consumers had been locked out of for several years following the recession as banks pulled back their lending to all put the most prime of customers.

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CFPB flags new issues in latest credit card review; Ballard Spahr to conduct April 13 webinar

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The CFPB has issued another request for information about the credit card market that identifies significant new issues of CFPB interest. The request is intended to inform the CFPB’s biennial review of the credit card market mandated by the CARD Act. Third-party comparison sites. Secured credit cards. Culhane, Jr.

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