Clothing retailers sell their shoppers more than jeans and sweaters. Major apparel companies also sell credit, often with very high fees, like The Gap’s 21.7% starting interest rate, and US to late ...

Banking regulations haven't caught up with gift cards, which fraudsters are using to steal money from people in ways that are difficult to trace or reverse. The Conversation, CC BY-ND Wednesday ...

Has your credit card information been exposed in a data breach? If not, it probably will be at some point. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), 14.2 million credit card numbers were ...

Identity and data thieves are less likely to open a new credit card or other loan in a consumer's name if the consumer has bad credit, according to a new report released today by Experian Information ...

When you think of the Internet underground, you probably don't think about Burbank or Ventura, Calif.. But if you want to see what's going on in the Web's darkest corners, the Ventura Freeway is where ...

The average credit card rate is 20.51%, Bankrate reports. That’s a hair below the all-time record, 20.79%, set in August. Card rates are so high, in part, because of the Federal Reserve. The central ...