For a limited time, select American Express cardmembers are eligible for the following promo: Spend a total of $5 or more on iTunes using your enrolled American Express Card by April 30, 2014, and you’ll receive a one-time $5 statement credit.
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Wondering what your credit score is but don’t want to pay for it? If the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has its way, in the future, every credit card company will provide this information for free on your monthly statement.
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If you have a Hawaiian Airlines credit card from Bank of America or Bank of Hawaii, there are some significant changes coming your way. Hawaiian Airlines will soon be switching existing cardholders to either the Hawaiian Airlines World Elite MasterCard for consumers or the Hawaiian Airlines Business MasterCard for small businesses, using Barclaycard as the issuing bank. While the transition will result in more fees, cardholders will also enjoy a number of new benefits. A few of the major changes include: an increase in the annual fee to $89 and a free checked bag privilege if you use your card to buy the ticket. These changes will become effective April 28, 2014. Current cardholders are expected to receive their new cards in the mail in mid-April.
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Citi recently introduced yet another redemption option for your ThankYou points. Called “ThankYou Select and Credit,” the new option allows Citi ThankYou Rewards members to use their points to cover purchases made during their current credit card billing cycle in certain categories on an eligible consumer Citi credit card. Eligible spending categories include dining, entertainment, grocery and drug store purchases, utilities and gas.
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The days of swiping your credit card and signing a receipt to complete a transaction are numbered. Starting late next year, it should become standard to insert your credit card into a card reader and enter a PIN.
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US Bank is offering up another fun reason to cheer on Team USA in the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi, by sponsoring a promotion that ties the bonus you’ll get for applying for the FlexPerks Travel Rewards Visa Card to the number of medals that the US wins.
When you get approved for a new FlexPerks® Travel Rewards Visa by March 7, 2014 and make your first purchase by March 31, 2014, you’ll earn 500 bonus FlexPoints for each gold medal, 250 bonus FlexPoints for each silver medal and 100 bonus FlexPoints for each bronze medal that Team USA wins. On top of this, you’ll also earn 20,000 bonus FlexPoints for spending at least $3,500 within the first four months of cardmembership.
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The Citi Executive / AAdvantage World Elite MasterCard, American Airlines’ premium co-branded credit card, currently has a special offer available. Under this promo, you’ll earn 100,000 bonus miles when you make $10,000 in purchases within 3 months of account opening. Plus, you’ll earn up to $200 in statement credits on purchases made within 12 months of account opening. Compared to the standard offer available on Citi’s website–which offers 30,000 bonus miles after spending $1,000 in the first 3 months–this is a fantastic deal, provided you can meet the spending requirements. There is an annual fee of $450, for which there is no waiver.
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Looking for the best cash back credit card? Your search ends here. Below you’ll find a list of only the best offers in the most complete, unbiased review of cash back cards that you’ll find anywhere.
While most of the cards that made the cut this year remain the same, unfortunately, over the past year, we saw most of the top cash back credit cards receive a downgrade in benefits. Some cards, such as the Priceline Rewards Visa, underwent changes to their rewards programs that caused them to go from being among the best to falling from the list completely. (Fortunately for existing Priceline cardholders, they are currently grandfathered into the old rewards program. That program, however, is no longer available to new applicants.) Other former top picks, such as the US Bank Cash+ Card, went from being a great pick for nearly anyone to more of a niche pick. Read on to get all the details.
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In an effort to repair its reputation with consumers and soften the impact of its massive data breach, Target sent out an email on Monday to thousands of its customers offering one year of free credit monitoring from Experian.
The security breach, which affected up to 110 million customers, occurred sometime between late November and mid-December, and was first publicly disclosed on December 19, 2013. It resulted in the theft of names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses in addition to debit and credit card information.
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While a 50,000 bonus point offer has been available for the Southwest Airlines Premier credit card for some time, the same offer is now also available for the Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards® Plus Card as well. Both flavors of cards now offer 50,000 bonus points after you spend $2,000 in your first 3 months of opening your account.
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