So, like NCAA rule breakers, credit card companies are offering gifts to recruits with high credit scores in return for opening new cards.

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By April 25, forensic teams were able to confirm the scope of the personal data they believed had been taken, and could not rule out whether credit card information had been accessed.

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Shares of Visa and MasterCard dipped last week after the Senate rejected a proposed six-month delay on a Federal Reserve rule to cap debit card swipe fees at 12 cents per transaction.

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The world's top credit card company wants to rule all electronic payments--once it overhauls its computers.

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Now that banks are facing a rule that would limit the fees they collect on debit card swipes they are asking the Federal Reserve for some mercy on how far the limitation will go.

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Card networks must comply with the two-network rule by October 1st.

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The ABA is referring to a Fed rule known as the Durbin Amendement that would to reduce the average debit card swipe fee collected by banks by nearly 75 percent from an average of 44 cents per swipe to 12 cents.

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The rule is one plank of a raft of new regulations, dubbed the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009.

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That's followed by an intriguing-looking Ten Minute Rule Bill from the Conservative Alec Shelbrooke, promoting the idea of a welfare cash card.

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They say the rule, which places a cap on the amount that banks can charge retailers each time a customer swipes their debit card, hurts customers and banks.

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