Payments/Credit/Debit

IRVINE, Calif. - Results of a recently conducted study by Experian Automotive of new car purchase requests generated on Kelley Blue Book's Web site - www.kbb.com - during the first nine months of 2004, found that 64% of consumers who submitted vehicle purchase requests on the Web site ultimately purchased...

DETROIT -Zero percent interest loans and rebate offers may have been part of the Big 3 auto manufacturers' strategy to move more vehicles, but have consumers gotten used to too much of a good thing? A monthly study from Harris Interactive and Kelley Blue Book Marketing Research - AutoVIBES-indicated that...

BETHESDA, Md. - Allpoint has signed up its first credit union in Arizona, making that state the 26th one in which the largest ATM network nationwide that provides surcharge-free ATM access to cardholders has participating banks and credit unions. The Network announced that the $94 million Huachuca FCU headquartered in...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - More kids will get a better education in American political and cultural history from colonial times, thanks to grant of support provided by a credit union card services group. PSCU Financial Services, the card servicing cooperative that serves 500 credit unions that process their card transactions...

BROOKFIELD, Wis. - Fiserv has introduced FraudGuard Digital Signature Verification, an outsourced service that digitally analyzes check signatures and compares them against a customer database to detect check fraud. Products like these will likely become more valuable in the Check 21 era as images will be more common and easier...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - TNB Card Services, the credit card processing and purchasing arm of the credit union-owned Town North Bank has issued a paper which aims to help credit unions make the decision whether or not to sell or hold its credit card portfolio. Previously, TNB Card Services has...

SAN FRANCISCO -Visa USA saw the volume of sales on its cards issued in the U.S. climb by over 19% in 2004, the card brand reported, yielding a total of just over $1 trillion on all Visa branded cards (credit, debit, prepaid and commercial). "By any measure, 2004 was a...

ARLINGTON, Va. - The pace of consolidation in the overall credit card industry continued apace in 2004 as a parade of mergers and acquisitions continued to mark the maturing industry, according to Cardweb.com, a site on the World Wide Web that tracks card trends. According to Cardweb, the top 10...