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		<title>The Approved Card by Suze Orman: Not Just Another Credit Card</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first reaction to the announcement that Suze Orman and MasterCard® had created a new credit card was definitely cynical. We thought “Here’s another example of a well-known personal finance expert, who supposedly is all about helping people get out of debt and increase their financial standings, taking advantage of devoted followers just to add [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customer Satisfaction Excellence Award for American Express Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Express Canada was honored with the 2011 Service Quality Award of Excellence for its customer service call centres, according to a recent press release on the American Express Canada website. The award recognizes the highest level of customer satisfaction among credit card companies not only in Canada, but in all of North America. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Credit Card Holders Victims of Nearly Half of World&#8217;s Credit Card Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Credit card fraud perpetrated upon US Credit Card holders stands at 47% of the world’s credit and debit card fraud according to the highly respected Nilson Report. That high statistic translates into a mind-boggling 3.56 billion dollars of fraud losses in the United States last year. Why, in one of the world’s leading industrial countries, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYC Credit Card Theft Ring Raises Questions About Safe Use of Cards When Dining Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PlasticRewards.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent headlines proclaimed news that a ring of criminals bilked restaurant customers of at least a million dollars in a sophisticated fraud scheme. Unlike similar identity theft crimes, the targets were not the unsuspecting, elderly whose naïveté make them vulnerable, but members of the upper echelon of society, those often regarded by the average Joe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discover Discontinues Secure Online Account Numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discover® Card’s recent move to eliminate randomly assigned special security numbers to facilitate online purchases without use of actual account numbers may leave some Discover cardmembers questioning potential vulnerability in online credit card purchases. Although the Secure Online Account Numbers program was set to discontinue on Sept. 8, 2011, it will not end abruptly. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JD Power Releases 2011 Credit Card Satisfaction Survey Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PlasticRewards.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JD Powers and Associates, a highly respected global marketing information services with a solid reputation for over 40 years of business, released results of its 2011 US Credit Card Satisfaction Study℠ showing that American Express® ranks highest of the top 10 US credit cards when it comes to customer satisfaction. American Express has taken top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capital One Announces Acquisition of HSBC US Credit Card Unit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent press release, Capital One™ announced the acquisition of HSBC’s US credit card branch. Announcement of the $2.6 billion purchase, completion of which is anticipated in the second quarter of 2012, immediately caused over a 2% jump in Capital One stocks. HSBC, which bills itself as “The world’s local bank,” is headquartered in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discover Card Website Wins Best Overall Customer Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent press release, Discover® Card announced that its website has been awarded first place in Best Overall Customer Experience for prospects in the 2011 Keynote Competitive Research Industry Study of U.S. credit card marketing websites. In a study that involved 1800 prospective customers and marketing sites of most major credit cards including American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Reports Warns America&#8217;s Credit Cards &#8220;Surprisingly Vulnerable&#8221; to Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sherri Lebaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Consumer Reports June 2011 issue, the article “House of Cards” gives some disquieting information about the outdated security technology employed by American credit card issuers. Three pieces of almost shocking information are: Information necessary to complete a transaction stored on American-issued credit cards is virtually unprotected. Technology for higher level credit card security [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Bank&#174; and Visa&#174; Announce FlexPerks Travel Rewards Visa Signature Card with Dual Contactless Payment Capabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PlasticRewards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Better than doubling your pleasure® with Doublemint® gum, US Bank and Visa are set to double their marketability and the ease of use for international travelers as they reveal the FlexPerks Travel Rewards Visa Signature Card’s near field technology (NFT) that includes both Visa’s payWave chip and the EMV® (Europay, VISA, MasterCard®) microprocessor. Technology now [...]]]></description>
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