This includes contact and contactless payments, such as use of credit card or mobile device respectively.
Strong consumer confidence translates into more purchases, which generally means a greater use of credit cards.
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Borrowing to buy cars and houses, and the use of credit cards, have leapt.
Zero-rate policies encourage indiscriminate use of credit and distort the process by which alternative demands compete for funds.
The use of credit for the purchase of homes, cars, furniture and household appliances resulted in foreclosures and repossessions.
Online shopping is increasing dramatically, aided by the increased use of credit cards.
MasterCard said use of debit cards in the U.S. rose faster than the use of credit cards during the holiday shopping season.
Cutting out your use of credit cards means time-consuming trips to the ATM and extra service charges from increased debit card use.
The restrictions also cover the use of credit derivatives to bet on a fall in the value of the debt of a eurozone government.
The Web sites of major banks offer excellent information on the wise use of credit, including Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup.
All it takes is a moderate and prudent use of credit.
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Accounts that make best use of credit balances are appearing.
Such reactionary moves will combine to make debit cards relatively less appealing to consumers and will, in effect, promote a more pervasive use of credit cards which have significantly higher, unregulated interchange fees.
Perhaps the most egregious example of the company's insularity was the way it held out for more than 20 years against the use of credit cards, launching its own store card instead.
Household debt has doubled in the past five years, partly as a result of an explicit policy of encouraging the use of credit cards to cut down on cash-based transactions and fight tax evasion.
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This will not be helpful to US banks which may have insured the European banks through the use of credit default swaps if these insurance contracts have to be unwound upon a Greek bankruptcy.
Credit card balances dropped because cardholders reduced their use of credit cards at the same time as issuers reduced their own lending risk, slashed credit limits on millions of existing accounts and closed riskier accounts.
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R. 3149, was introduced this summer to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit the use of consumer credit checks against prospective and current employees for the purposes of making adverse employment decisions.
Changes in consumption habits are evident in the exploding use of consumer credit cards.
As it now stands, only companies with taxable income can make use of the credit.
Prudent use of a credit card means taking advantage of reward programs and paying off the balance every month, he said.
But they must abide by Federal Reserve Board rules barring the use of the credit lines for purchasing or carrying margin stock.
An internal audit report published on Thursday by the county council reveals wider concerns about the use of corporate credit cards dating back to 2003.
That puts these accounts out of reach for families living paycheck to paycheck if they do not supplement their everyday spending with the use of a credit card, going deeper into debt each month.
They include allegations relating to irregular use of a force credit card, trips abroad and allegedly obstructing a criminal investigation.
However, travellers' cheques are largely redundant these days and have been ousted by greater use of debit and credit cards.
He was arrested for alleged fraudulent use of a corporate credit card.
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Tina Newman (OHO 2008011719501, March 30, 2011), in which registered person Newman was Barred for improper use of her corporate credit card.
Peter Martin, the current county council leader, said it was important that concerns about the use of the corporate credit card were independently investigated.
With fewer loans available, small businesses around the world generally increased their use of overdrafts, credit lines and trade credit with suppliers, for instance, the OECD report said.
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