The private-label corner of the U.S. credit-card market is enjoying a resurgence as fewer Americans fall behind on their payments.
Representatives for many of the big U.S. debit-card issuers declined to discuss unbundling, with most saying they are waiting for the Fed's final rules, expected in April.
The first thing you do, if you're Wang Xun, is buy a car and get a U.S.-dollar credit card for online purchases.
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" Unlike the West, says Catherine Allen, founder of U.S.-based Smart Card Forum, the region "does not have the embedded infrastructure of magnetic-stripe cards to get rid of.
In the first quarter of this year, issuers sent out 47 million professional-card offers to U.S. households, up from 13.2 million in the corresponding period last year, according to research firm Synovate.
He is one of an estimated 20, 500 "non-U.S. citizens" -- dubbed "green-card warriors" -- serving in the military.
Discover Financial Services ( DFSWI - news - people ) got knocked down in December when the sixth-biggest U.S. credit card issuer reported that the yield on its loans had fallen, partly due to the new legislation, parts of which already went into effect in August.
First Data owns Western Union and is also the top credit-card transaction processor in the U.S. Sales grew 12% in 2002 and net income was up 42%.
Personally, I'm convinced that the answer to America's immigration woes is a middle-of-the-road approach that combines enforcement measures (continued workplace raids, speedier deportations, more spending on tools and technology for border patrol agents, etc.) with guest workers, an increase in legal immigration, a tamper-proof ID card for all U.S. employees, tougher sanctions for employers and a path to earned legalization for illegal immigrants who came into the country before January 1, 2000.
Helping to drive sales but to temporarily depress profits was the acquisition out of bankruptcy of Clinton Cards, a U.K.-based chain of 400 retail card shops.
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U.S. lenders report loan and credit-card activity to credit bureaus based on billing addresses, but that activity could stop if you change your credit-card accounts and loans to a foreign address.
Opponents are particularly concerned about the House legislation, which would allow the Hollywood studios and other content owners to ask credit-card processors to block payments to U.S. websites accused of hosting pirated material.
Young kids are constantly seen playing pickup games and carrying their baseball gloves around, pastimes that have mostly gone the way of the10-cent bubble gum card in the U.S. In short, Japanese pro baseball is a gem that's lost some luster in recent years, due to bad positioning in the global marketplace.
Ismael had said that his mother, Nawal Abdel Aziz Nour, held a green-card residency permit but was not a U.S. citizen.
In addition to this news, Intuit will soon begin shipping a free, newly-designed GoPayment Card Reader in both the U.S and Canada.
But two days later the American rookie was celebrating his first victory on the U.S.-based circuit, retaining his Tour card for 2013 after a win at the appropriately named Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Classic.
Leff, who has only ever flown first-class, has loyalty card status on all U.S. airline programs and currently has three million miles across all his accounts.
American Express reported a 7% year-on-year increase in card billed business in the U.S. for the fourth quarter of 2012, complemented by a 5% increase in spend per card in the country.
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As of 2008, one-third of all Silicon Valley companies were founded or co-founded by Indian or Chinese nationals who were able to legally work in the U.S. with an H-1B visa or green card.
In February I received my Nexus card after being interviewed at the U.S.-Canadian border at Port Huron, Michigan.
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Dynamics says it has reached multiple agreements with U.S. card issuers for more than 1 million of its one-of-a-kind cards.
The wild card ahead for the U.S. dollar remains the Euro-zone.
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Here's an idea that Democrats and Republicans can both support: Award any foreign-born student who graduates from a U.S. university a green card along with his or her diploma, as well as any immigrant who starts a business that grows to more than five people on the payroll.
Padraig Harrington and Hunter Mahan, who missed out on being among their respective team captains' wild-card picks, shot 70 to be tied for 41st while automatic U.S. selections Keegan Bradley (71) and Jason Dufner (72) were further back.
The company points out that customers can't bank with the card or use it outside the U.S. But other stored-value cards, often branded by Visa or MasterCard, can be accessed for cash via atms worldwide and reloaded with cash online or at checkout counters without a bank account or face-to-face identity verification.
In 2001, credit card issuers bled slowly as charge-off rates for the top 100 U.S. institutions rose to 5.94% for the fourth quarter of 2001 from 4.55% in the fourth quarter of 2000.
The fate of health care in the U.S. Senate will set the passage odds for cap-and-trade and union card check next year.
The actor is perhaps best known in the U.S., ironically, for his role in the movie, Green Card, co-starring Andie MacDowell.
Still, well over half of U.S. library card holders don't know whether their local public library lends e-books, according to a new Pew report.
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"North Korea wants to get the U.S. to direct bilateral negotiations by using the missile card, " said Paik Hak-soon, a North Korea expert at the Seoul-based Sejong Institute.
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