GoUrban offers prepaid credit card
An e-commerce Web site catering to black consumers is offering a branded, prepaid credit card in an effort trying to reach out to people who don’t use traditional financial institutions. Denver-based www.GoUrban.net announced Tuesday it reached agreement with card issuer MetaBank, payment technology company ESafe Cards Inc. and MasterCard to begin offering the prepaid card [...]
Credit card rates to dip, slightly
Credit card debt will soon get a bit easier to handle — a very little bit — now that the Federal Reserve has lowered the benchmark interest rate by a half-percentage-point. It’s not going to save the average card holder much money — certainly not enough to get your kid an iPod this holiday season. [...]