I was 19 when I received my first credit card and I had no idea what I was doing — and I’m not alone. In fact, according to a recent Bankrate survey, over half of Americans have not received a strong ...

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Eric Leppanen’s story is all too familiar: After being laid off from a major bank a few years ago, his family income is now a little more than half of what it was before he lost his job. The ...

From our mostly good news department: Fewer Americans are carrying onerous balances on their credit cards, most are paying less interest on those debts and many are working harder not to carry from ...

More Americans are working to bring down their credit card balances as the U.S. credit-card delinquency rate fell close to the lowest levels since 1994. Credit monitoring site TransUnion reports the ...

Whether you realize it or not, your credit score can have a major impact on your life. You're probably well aware that your credit report and/or score can impact your ability to get a credit card or a ...

It was bound to happen eventually. I became the latest in a long list of people who have had their bank account compromised and cash stolen. Just as any other typical morning. I sat with a cup of tea ...

Barack Obama's credit card was rejected recently at a New York restaurant after he attempted to pay for a large dinner tab after attending a United Nations meeting. The campaigner-in-chief explained ...

A lesson in card fraud Two weeks ago, I received a call from Citibank. Thinking that it was a telemarketer trying to sell me a financial product, I was all ready to say 'no thanks and goodbye' when ...

(WSVN) - You own a small business. A customer pays with a credit card, you run it and are told it’s good, and then it’s not. You can still get your money if it’s a bad credit card, right? Maybe not, ...

To get a headstart on their financial education, we’ve put together a series of lesson plans and activities that run from kindergarten to college that you can use to teach your kids about the world of ...