American Express has added The Ritz-Carlton to its “Hotel Folio” partnerships, where cardmembers get analytical reports on lodging expenditures – a perk that is in demand by budget-tightening businesses. “We’ve ...

Just when you thought American Express was starting to run out of creative merchant partnerships, here comes the AmEx tie-in with Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants. Use American Express to “auto-recharge,” ...

A national retail group projects that 96.5 million online shoppers will take to the keyboards on today’s Cyber Monday, up 19 percent from last year. The survey by shop.org, a unit of the National Retail Federation, ...

Major credit card issuers are offering extra reward points, promotional websites and online comparison shopping tools in an all-out blitz to grab the biggest share of Cyber Monday sales and beyond. And they may ...

The term didn’t even enter the American lexicon until 4 or 5 years ago, but Cyber Monday, the day following Thanksgiving weekend, is looming more vital then ever this year for struggling retailers and credit ...

Holiday shoppers this season are projected to use their credit cards much less than last year, but an undeterred American Express is serving up some big rewards for some of its card members starting on Black Friday. From ...

As far as anybody can tell, it will be the most lucrative credit card sign-up rewards deal ever. Chase, the largest credit-card lender, and British Airways, are expected to offer new customers 100,000 airline miles ...

Two credit card companies stood out with higher than average performances in a recent survey of credit card users by J.D. Power and Associates.  The results also reflect the growing popularity of reward programs. The ...

There is no letting down in the popularity of debit cards. So much so that by next year more than half of debit card issuers will have a rewards program. And, in another six years, debit card transactions will account ...