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2 unusual facts about credit card


Aldershot railway station

These new machines sell tickets to many stations in Great Britain and accept major credit and debit cards.

Data monetization

Credit card issuers and retail banks are using customer transaction data to improve targeting of cross-sell offers.


Advanzia Bank

Advanzia bank S.A was established in Luxembourg in 2005 subject to CSSF supervision, specializing in euro savings accounts and no-fee credit cards.

Banco Intercontinental

Colonel Pedro Julio Goico Guerrero (a.k.a. Pepe Goico), who served as Mejía's Head of Security and who guarded former U.S. president Bill Clinton on visits to the United States, got ten solid-gold President Rolex watches worth US$15,000 each and use of a credit card that the bank would pay off.

Bills.com

Bills.com provides consumers with information and interactive tools dealing with personal finance topics, including credit cards, insurance, debt relief assistance, mortgage loans, student loans and other personal loans.

Bit

The same principle was later used in the magnetic bubble memory developed in the 1980s, and is still found in various magnetic strip items such as metro tickets and some credit cards.

Delroy Easton Grant

He has taken credit cards and obtained their PINs from his victims but there has never been any record of him using them.

Fair Credit Reporting Act

Typically, these are creditors, with which a consumer has some sort of credit agreement (such as credit card companies, auto finance companies and mortgage banking institutions).

GM Card

The GM Card is a co-branded rewards credit card program with consumer cards offered by Capital One and business cards offered by Chase.

History of Sioux Falls, South Dakota

In 1981, Citibank transferred its credit card operations from New York to Sioux Falls to take advantage of recently relaxed state usury laws.

Identity Commons

Identity Commons was going to be an international non-stock membership organization similar to Visa, and was inspired by the concepts of chaordic organization developed by Dee Hock (founding CEO of Visa).

Mrbrown

The show showcases guests from various quarters of Singapore, and parodies a wide variety of subjects, ranging from VISA's advertising campaign starring Richard Gere, to political satire.

Pablo Motos

Binaca made an announcement referring to a bad mouth, has been the voice of Coca Cola, announced the bank credit card Visa and released the air conditioning Fujitsu.

Rafidain Bank

This project will cover basic retail banking and trade finance but advanced banking functions such as ATM networks, Card Management and internet banking will be considered by the Ministry of Finance in later stages.

RCI Banque

RCI Banque offers automobile financing lines (11.09 billion euros in financing and 1,024,771 vehicles at the end of 2011), insurance (2.5 million active insurance policies at the end of 2011) and related services, including car loans (used and brand-new), rentals with purchasing options, leases, long-term rentals for retail customers and services, such as maintenance, extended warranties, roadside assistance, fleet management, and credit cards.

Representative example

The representative example must be provided when any financial services provider advertising a product, whether it is a credit card, loan or mortgage.

Until 2010, any financial services provider advertising a product in the UK, whether it is a credit card, loan or mortgage, have had to comply with the Consumer Credit (Advertisement) Regulations 2004 (2004 Regulations).

Shaher Elsohemy

He was given legal immunity to "knowingly facilitate a terrorist activity" and asked to help the accused acquire credit cards and purchase ammonium nitrate from disguised police officers, and to facilitate the storage of the explosive fertilizer in a Newmarket warehouse.

TrueMoneyGames

The real money games require a prior deposit, therefore several different methods have been introduced, such as credit card payments, Neteller, Moneybookers, Paysafecard, Western Union, ClickandBuy and bank transfers.

Wayne Cilento

In this period, he was featured in more than 100 national commercials, including spots for VISA, Dr Pepper, Burger King, McDonalds, Kmart, and Dairy Queen.


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Bankard

When PCI Bank merged with Equitable Bank to form Equitable PCI Bank, the new Equitable PCI chose to keep Equitable Bank's credit card arm, Equitable CardNetwork, rather than to incorporate Bankard into Equitable's credit card operations.

Boase Massimi Pollitt

An example was the BMP advertisement for the Barclaycard credit card, featuring an accident-prone card user, later expanded into the character of Johnny English played by Rowan Atkinson.

Calling card

Telephone card, a small card, usually resembling a credit card, used to pay for telephone services

Charlie Lynn

He was nominated for an Ernie Award for saying "I'm not happy about someone else having my credit card details, it's bad enough that my wife has them.".

CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank

Additionally FirstCaribbean also offers a co-branded University of the West Indies VISA-Classic, Gold or Platinum credit card for students, alumni and staff.

Comisión Federal de Electricidad

According to evidence presented at trial, the intermediary bought a CFE official a $297,500 Ferrari Spyder and a $1.8 million yacht, as well as paying more than $170,000 towards the official’s credit card bills.

Common Access Card

The Common Access Card, also colloquially referred to as the CAC (often called CAC card, due to what is informally known as RAS syndrome), is a smart card about the size of a credit card.

Credit Solutions of America

In September 2009, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed suit against Credit Solutions alleging that “the company falsely claims that its services can help to reduce consumers' credit card debt by 50 percent.” .

Dashaveyor

The Dashaveyor concept started with Stanley Dashew, a prolific inventor who is best known for building the embossing machines used to produce the BankAmericard, the first plastic bank credit card system, which later evolved into Visa.

Data masking

This substitution method needs to be applied for many of the fields that are in DB structures across the world, such as telephone numbers, zip codes and postcodes, as well as credit card numbers and other card type numbers like Social Security numbers and Medicare numbers where these numbers actually need to conform to a checksum test of the Luhn algorithm.

Discover Financial

Discover is the fourth largest credit card issuer, when measured by card balances, behind Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Citi, and ahead of Capital One and American Express.

For Richer or Poorer

Brad is unable to access his money through an ATM and Caroline has her credit card destroyed at her table as she's having lunch with some friends.

GM Card

Capital One acquired many of HSBC's U.S. credit card customers and some of its products in May of 2012 for $2.6 billion and another $31.3 billion to cover the balances on the accounts transferred.

Gold Age

On March 12, 2001, then Gold Age owner Parker Bradley was detained at his place of business in Syracuse, New York by US Secret Service agents investigating credit card fraud.

Interchange fee

Reps. John Conyers (D-MI) and Chris Cannon (R-UT) introduced the "Credit Card Fair Fee Act" on March 6, 2008, which would create a panel of judges, appointed by the Department of Justice Antitrust Division and Federal Trade Commission to oversee interchange fees.

In January 2007, Senate Banking committee chairman Chris Dodd cited interchange fees at a hearing on credit card industry practices and again in March the fees were criticized by Sen. Norm Coleman.

Ipredator

The site accepts credit card payments via PaySon and AlertPay systems, as well as Bitcoin, on request.

Itautec

Software: Point of sale, Credit card processing, an in-house Linux distribution called Librix, Terminal management, Digital signatures, and Banking Correspondence, among others.

Jackson Scholz

During the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, an American Express credit card commercial ("Don't leave home without it") included Ben Cross and the 87-year-old Scholz.

James A. Fite, Jr.

Following World War II, Fite returned to work at Humble Oil & Refining Company (which eventually became Exxon in 1973) and retired in 1974 as Coordinator of Credit Card Business for Exxon.

Jared Isaacman

Under Isaacman, UBC has become one of the largest payment processors in the nation (as ranked by the Nilson Report), providing merchant services to over 100,000 locations and processing in excess of $9 billion in credit card volume annually.

Jose Pimentel

In December 2005, he was arrested for buying a computer with stolen credit card information he got while working at a Circuit City in Albany, New York.

Josip Gašpar

He was relieved of his managerial duties at Prečko Zagreb at the beginning of April 2013 due to an incident in which he apparently stole a player's credit card and used it to buy 36 one-litre bottles of Jägermeister.

Lazaros Kalemis

Alpha Card Services provides merchant services and ancillary services, such as Payroll, Point-of-Sale Systems, Gift and Reward Cards, ATM Services and Merchant cash advance to over 15,000 U.S. locations and processes in excess of $2 billion in credit card volume annually.

Marquette Nat. Bank of Minneapolis v. First of Omaha Service Corp.

The term "credit card" had been used and proposed by utopian author Edward Bellamy in his 1887 book Looking Backward.

Merchant factor

Merchant cash advance, a payment to a business in exchange for a percentage of future credit card and/or debit card sales

Metcard

Payment options vary from coin-only (small Metcard machines on trams and at railway stations), EFTPOS, coin and some notes (large ticket machines at stations) to EFTPOS, credit card, coin and all notes (premium railway stations).

Movieland

The ads say there are no forms to fill out, and no need to provide a credit card number or an e-mail address, making the trial appear anonymous.

Nessa Feddis

Feddis predicted on various national news stations, including PBS’ NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and on ABC News that the Credit CARD Act would mean that credit card rates would increase generally, small businesses and consumers would find it harder to obtain credit, and limits would be lower.

Nochex

Under section 75 of the United Kingdom's Consumer Credit Act, credit card companies are required to refund payments made by customers who failed to receive goods or services if the purchase was made directly from the retailer.

Operation Ore

Duncan Campbell later stated in PC Pro magazine that their credit card charges and IP addresses were traced through the Landslide site, and both were found to have accessed sites which had nothing to do with child pornography.

Panty Raiders

Other websites created by the duo include: Plastic Assets, which advertised a new credit card that offered free breast implants to young applicants; Christians Against Hip Hop, which tried to save white girls from the "dangers" of hip hop; and Adopt Black Girls, a fake adoption agency for young girls, which raised awareness about the effects of racist policy after Hurricane Katrina.

Personal identity number

Personal identification number, or PIN, used for identification for credit card usage and other situations.

Primanti Brothers

In the suit, the plaintiff, Nora Hoxha, claimed that the restaurant's credit card receipts printed all, or if not all, too many digits of a customer's credit card number in violation of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act.

On March 9, 2011, U.S. District Judge David S. Cercone approved a settlement between Primanti Brothers and a customer in response a lawsuit over the content of credit card receipts.

Providian

In 1984, Andrew Kahr founded a credit card company called First Deposit Corp.

Samy Kamkar

In 2008, after Kamkar's restriction from computers was lifted, he demonstrated weaknesses in Visa, MasterCard and Europay credit cards with Near field communication (NFC) and Radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips built in and released software demonstrating the ability to steal credit card information, including name, credit card number, and expiration date, wirelessly from these cards.

Schumer

Schumer box, the summary of the costs of a credit card, named after Chuck Schumer

Smiley v. Citibank

In 1980, Citibank took advantage of that decision and moved its money-losing credit-card operations to South Dakota, after persuading that state's legislature and governor to repeal its anti-usury law.

Team OS/2

Ultimately, at least some of Microsoft's efforts were exposed on Will Zachmann's Canopus forum on CompuServe, where the owner of one particular account, ostensibly belonging to "Steve Barkto", (who had been attacking OS/2, David Barnes, Whittle, and other OS/2 fans) was discovered to be funded by the credit card of Rick Segal, a high-level Microsoft employee / evangelist, who had also been active in the forums.

The Pancakes

HSBC Hong Kong credit card, December 2000, patronage (from the album pancakes can panick).

The Way That I Love You

The video reveals that Ashanti discovered that her boyfriend (played by actor-singer Christian Keyes) was cheating on her, via messages on his Sidekick and credit card and phone bills.

Travelodge UK

On 24 October 2006 the BBC One Watchdog programme highlighted Travelodge's policy of overbooking their hotels, turning guests away even when they have booked against a credit card.