Dear Credit Score Report, If a payment is late, but by fewer than 30 days, how will that affect my credit score? I mean, if the payment is not done on the due date, but is two or three weeks late, does that affect the score anyway? Also will I be reported to the credit [...]
shopkick has announced that, with Citi sponsorship, it will install its small shopkick Signal box for FREE at the first 1,000 selected stores to enable its beneficial walk-in rewards program. “Our work with shopkick demonstrates one of the ways we are working to drive growth for our clients and for our company,” said Christopher Kay, [...]
Dear New Frugal You, Emergency fund, emergency fund, emergency fund. Everybody says it’s important, but I’m not so sure. First, it can be hard to have several thousand dollars in an account and not spend it. And second, there are ways around having a pile of cash sitting around. Many loans, such as student and [...]
The US Federal Reserve has reported its latest G.19 Consumer Credit statistics – finding that ” consumer credit increased at an annual rate of 3% in April 2011. Nonrevolving credit increased at an annual rate of 5.25%, while revolving credit decreased at an annual rate of 1.5%.”
Adyen has announced the availability of a new single-click mobile payment pages solution for iPhone and Android. “The outsourced solution gives application developers the ability to implement an alternative payment solution to itunes that also accepts credit cards, PayPal and a range of other payment methods within mobile applications and mobile websites.”