Credit conscious consumers should take care to check their free credit score to monitor their credit health, and keep their monthly balances under the recommended 30% of their total credit limits to keep spending in check.

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Yet another company employs anonymized credit card complaint data from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to help consumers monitor their credit and debit cards for suspicious charges.

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Credit-card companies monitor every purchase and can identify fraudulent ones with a high degree of accuracy, using rules derived by crunching through billions of transactions.

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The present system of financial reporting is entirely inadequate to monitor West to East credit flows even from the perspective of commercial prudence.

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As tactical asset allocators, we continue to monitor and analyze interest rates, credit markets, the economy and other factors affecting various bond sectors.

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Given that nearly 50% of luxury purchases made by Chinese take place outside of the mainland, the most effective way to monitor high-end retail sales is to track credit card transactions.

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The cybercriminals would monitor the withdrawals in real-time from within the credit-card processing firms' computer networks, prosecutors said.

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While no effort was made to reach a group consensus, it was clear that the majority of panelists and participants appreciate the growing interaction of international developments and global currency, equities and credit markets -- a reality that obliges U.S. business and government leaders to monitor such political, national security and economic developments around the world with ever greater care.

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