Beware of 'Free' Workshops (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News)
With credit cards making life easier for millions of Americans, younger consumers may wonder when they too can get in on the action. However, consumers will generally have to wait until they are at least 18 until they can apply for a credit cards.
Beware of 'Free' Workshops (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News)
I attended a free workshop sponsored by a company that teaches people how to open real estate investment companies. They're asking for $7,500 in exchange for mentoring me in this business. I checked with the real estate commission and they were unfamiliar with the company, but the Better Business Bureau listed no complaints against them. Is this a legitimate business opportunity?
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Bottled water awash in a sea of controversy (USA Today)
Bottled water is in hot water, and marketers of alternatives are trying to seize the opportunity. Some of the same health-conscious consumers who helped make bottled water a $15 billion business now are among those worried about its environmental impact its 38 million plastic bottles a year made with 1.5 million barrels of oil.
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Lenders Turning to Alternative Credit Data In order to generate growth, lenders need to seek new customers in new ways. ... (Finance Technology Network)
As banks and other lenders look for new paths to profitability, alternative credit data is gaining acceptance for credit decisioning. "[Traditional] credit markets are tapped out," says Jennifer Tescher, director of Chicago-based Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI), a nonprofit whose mission is to assist the industry in profitably serving the underbanked market.
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Lenders Turning to Alternative Credit Data (BankTech)
Nontraditional credit data for credit scoring is gaining acceptance among lenders seeking new sources of growth.
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Credit lending on agendas for Congress (The Argus Leader)
High-risk credit card lenders have been under a microscope. Scrutiny began with a Senate Subcommittee on Permanent Investigations hearing in March, and subsequent events such as First Premier Bank's agreement this month to pay $4.5 million to the state of New York to resolve an attorney general's investigation into First Premier's past marketing and billing practices in that state have only ...
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Beware of 'Free' Workshops (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! Asia News)
You may pick up some great motivation or business tips, but investigate offers carefully to avoid high-pressure sales and scams
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Dubai First committed to increase customer satisfaction through additional technology alliances (AME Info)
Dubai First, the first consumer finance company from Dubai Holding, has successfully migrated its systems to the Vision Plus platform, the top of the line Card Management System used by major card issuers.
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MasterCard Worldwide and DSS forge strategic partnership to enhance shopping (Zawya)
21 August 2007 MasterCard Worldwide MasterCard Worldwide is one of the key sponsors and the official payment card for the eighth year running of the Dubai Summer Surprises (DSS) 2007. As the official payment card, MasterCard MasterCard has demonstrated its commitment to the DSS and the region by cooperating with other DSS sponsors to offer consumers benefits and exciting experiences that are ...
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TRX to Auto-Ticket RESX Reservations through CORREX (ThomasNet)
Providing RESX Users with Touchless Reservations to Lower the Total Cost of Travel ATLANTA, July 18 / -- TRX, Inc., a global technology company that develops and hosts software applications to process data records and automate manual processes, today announced a new bundled service opportunity for participating clients to automatically ticket flight reservations completed through its RESX® ...
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Dydacomp SiteLINK eCommerce Solution Celebrates 10 Years Anniversary (ThomasNet)
TOTOWA, N.J., July 19, 2007 -- Dydacomp, a leading provider of business automation solutions for multichannel marketers announced the 10th anniversary of SiteLINK, its ecommerce platform designed exclusively for users of the popular Mail Order Manager order management and processing system. Originally released in 1997, Dydacomp was one of the first to offer a complete, end-to-end business ...
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Beware of 'Free' Workshops (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News)
The Fed recommend that the preventative steps consumers need to take with payment methods to battle fraud should take into account both the sources of fraud and "the ease of resolution based on the payment type."
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