To make up for some of the lost revenue from this and prior regulatory changes, some card issuers have already employed new tactics: higher fees on balance transfers and cash advances, increased charges for overseas transactions and new or higher annual fees on cards.

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Thereafter, Butu admitted to attempting to use the stolen data for the purpose of making unauthorized charges on, or transfers of funds from, the accounts.

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The Liberal government itself is vulnerable to charges from Mr Day that, by massively cutting tax revenue transfers to the provinces for social services during the years of federal deficit-reduction, it had greatly damaged the health-care system before starting to restore the cuts this year.

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