Personal Finance News - 'american consumers' Tag

Western Union are aiming to increase their reach to over one million locations within the next few years and the key method they intend to use in order to achieve this is implementing a range of prepaid debit cards.

According to a recent survey, as many as 6 million American consumers currently have a financial account which they keep secret from their spouses, partners or significant others!

According to a recent report from Moody’s Investors Services, experts are predicting a credit card boom in 2012 based on the November figures published by the six main credit card companies.

Survey results released by the ACSI are indicating that credit unions scored an average of 87 on a 1 to 100 weighted scale, which is an 8.7 percent increase from the previous year.

In just 3 months, the brand new financial watchdog CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) has fielded over 5,000 complaints from consumers with regards to credit cards.

A recent research project carried out by Discover Card shows that the majority of American consumers will be expecting to add a few dollars – equal to the cost of a box of chocolates or a fancy bath product – …

In the current financial climate, bank loans are difficult to secure and as a result, many business owners are starting to use similar tactics to those being used by consumers across the country by putting off non-priority expenses and reducing …

On November 5 large numbers of American consumers got up and went to the bank. However, they were not making the usual transactions such as depositing money or paying bills.

A report released earlier this month detailed how many American consumers do not get quotations for life insurance because they are afraid that they will probably fail the medical exam which is usually required by insurance providers before a …

New consumer studies have indicated that American consumers will be spending the same amount of money on presents for friends and family this holiday season as they did last year, but they will be relying heavily on retail sales and …

A new study carried out by the New York Federal Reserve Bank claims that American consumers are on the whole fairly ignorant about how much debt they are actually carrying.

It might be hard to believe, but according to a recent survey carried out by Visa most American consumers do not understand their credit score and have little or no grasp on which factors credit rating agencies consider when determining …

Capital One’s proposed acquisition of ING Direct is pending approval by the Federal Reserve, if the deal, worth $9.2 billion, is approved Capital One will become the fifth largest bank by deposits in the United States.

In an age where there are so many hoaxes and identity theft scams are flooding the internet, many of us have been conditioned to be highly suspicious of any emails, facebook messages or direct tweets which request any sort of …

A new report from Experian highlights that on time credit card payments have improved in 30 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) putting credit card delinquencies at their lowest since 2007.