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Get a $20 GC for Every $200 You Spend at the Mall with your Discover Card
Sunday, October 28th, 2007Discover’s popular Holiday Mall promotion is back and is bigger than ever. For every $200 you spend on your Discover card at one of 160 participating shopping centers between November 1 and December 31, 2007, you’ll receive a $20 Discover gift card. There is a limit of five gift cards awarded per account. For more [...]
Are Discover’s Days Numbered?
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007On Friday, Morgan Stanley spun-off Discover Financial Services to focus on its higher-growth, core businesses. Already, there is speculation that Discover will be bought out in the near future: “We believe there is a reasonable likelihood of a sale of Discover over the next two years,” wrote Eric W. Wasserstrom, a UBS research analyst, in [...]
Fair Isaac to Change FICO Scoring System to Close Loophole
Sunday, June 17th, 2007A couple months ago, I described how some were exploiting a credit scoring loophole for profit. It appears that Fair Isaac, the company that develops the FICO score, has noticed this trend and is moving towards stopping this abuse. As part of its planned overhaul of its credit scoring system in September, Fair Isaac will [...]
No Balance Transfer Fee Within 30 Days of Chase Application?
Friday, September 29th, 2006A poster at FW is saying that many new Chase accounts actually have a 30 day period in which to make their initial balance transfer without paying a fee: Chase just sent a memo to it’s credit supervisors telling them that some accounts that required a BT at the time of application to avoid BT [...]
