Credit Cards

• Fed urged to stop new credit card tricks

• Senator Dodd introduces financial reforms

• House vote moves up date for credit card reforms

• Consumer Financial Protection Agency Gets OK

• Credit CARD Act: Statement by Consumers Union

• Credit CARD Act: Statement by Consumers Union

• Chase bank's minimum payment policy criticized

• Students: Beware the credit card trap on campus

• First of credit CARD Act Protections take effect

• CU: Recession is prime time for scams

• Obama proposes financial regulation overhaul

• House approves credit card reform bill

• Credit card reform bill passes House

• CU applauds Obama credit card proposals

• Credit Card Facts and Stats

• Coalition support letter for the Credit Cardholder Bill of Rights (HR 627) to House Financial Services Committee

• Video highlighting the fight in Congress over credit cards

• Senate panel passes bill limiting credit-card rates

• Summary of Pew Study on Credit Card Practices

• Senate panel to consider landmark credit card bill

• CU: Strong financial industry oversight needed

• Coalition endorses bill to cap interest rates

• Obama's bailout plan should help protect taxpayers

• Financial traps are flourishing

• Groups call on Treasury Secretary to restrict the use of bailout funds for credit cards

• Groups urge co-sponsorship of credit cardholders bill of rights

• Consumers Union's agenda for the 111th Congress

• An Agenda To Close Growing Gaps In Marketplace Protections

• New credit card protections adopted by Feds

• CU offers principles for restructuring financial regulation

• Bailout should include new credit card standards

• Statement by CU on President-elect Obama’s economic team

• CU offers tips to shoppers for paying online

• CU calls for new reforms to address financial crisis

• Letter to President-Elect Obama from Consumers Union President

• CU: Include credit card reforms in bailout package

• House passes credit card reform bill

• House to vote on credit card reforms

• Consumer’s Union letter urging Congress to act now on credit card reform

• OCC sides with banks on credit card reform

• Congress to consider landmark credit card bill

• Comments on proposed rule to curb unfair credit card practices

• CU applauds effort to restrain abusive credit card practices as a strong first step

• New rules proposed to curb unfair bank practices

• Senator Dodd's credit card reform bill applauded

• Consumer groups endorse credit card reform bills

• Credit cardholders send Congress a Valentine

• House bill takes on abusive credit card practices

• CU offers credit card tips for college students

• Credit card tips for college students

• CU urges Fed to improve credit card disclosures

• Consumers Deserve Stronger Financial Services Protections

• Consumer groups back credit card reform bill

• U.S. Senate hearing exposes credit card abuses

• Abusive credit card practices come under fire

• 2006 GAO study highlights anti-consumer practices in the credit card industry

• GAO stats and facts on credit cards

• Your credit cards – What you don’t know can cost you

• Credit Cards: A Call for Reform

• Letter urging Congress to keep existing credit protections for consumers using credit repair services

• Consumer Reports finds personal privacy concerns in planned uses of RFIDs

• Consumer group comments on federal regulation of credit card disclosures

• CardSystems' security breach shows need for stronger safeguards

• CU calls for changes in credit card practices, law, and regulation