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Wells Fargo Seeks Bidders For Private-Label Credit Card Unit

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Wells Fargo & Co is seeking to sell its private-label credit card and point-of-sale (POS) financing unit as part of an ongoing strategic review of its businesses. Selling the private-label credit card unit would be a business reversal for the financial services group. Wells Fargo also reported heightened debit card usage.

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CFPB Sues Citizens Bank For Violating Truth In Lending Act

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30) against Citizens Bank over alleged violations of the Truth In Lending Act (TILA). The CFPB said that Citizens Bank neglected to follow the rules for years by failing to properly manage credit card disputes. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a lawsuit on Thursday (Jan. It filed the complaint in the U.S.

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Your Credit Card Has A Past You Probably Didn’t Know About!

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What have your Credit Card ’s ancestors been up to? There’s probably nothing new we can tell you about the Credit Card. Today, we’re aiming at remedying that, so we’re all left with a new-found respect for our spend-friends and who knows, maybe it’ll just inspire us to go find the right Credit Card to fit our finances!

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How to get a Credit Card with a higher credit limit and attractive reward programs

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Credit Cards are a hugely popular and convenient way of making payments. If you have a good Credit Score and a stable income source, you may get approved for a Credit Card with a high credit limit and attractive reward programs. Here are a few things you can do to get the Credit Card you want. That depends on several factors.

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Community Banks, Where Moving Beyond Interest Income Is In The (Credit) Cards

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Think of banking and you might think of lending and deposits, where firms make money on the spread between what they pay savers and what they take in from borrowers. One area of (overlooked) potential lies with credit cards. It has a lot of compliance requirements, and there is an unsecured lending component to it.

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In Banking, The Line Between SMB And Consumer Can Blur

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But these gripes still exist: Many banks often rely on a business owner’s credit score to underwrite a business loan, for instance, while business owners themselves will often use personal credit cards to make company purchases. There is a “blurring in the line between lending to small business and personal credit,” she added.

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The CFPB section 1071 effective date

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Final rule Effective dates & compliance dates for rule 1071 As they do with any new requirement, financial institutions want to know when the CFPB 1071 rule is effective and when they must begin collecting and reporting data on their small business lending activities. Which lenders are counted as “covered financial institutions”?