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This millennial credit card executive had an epiphany about dating—now he has a romance app marrying credit scores with love
Lifestyle

This millennial credit card executive had an epiphany about dating—now he has a romance app marrying credit scores with love

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Affirm CEO Max Levchin
Personal Finance

Many consumers use ‘buy now, pay later’ like a credit card, Fed study shows—but providers insist it’s safer than that

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February 14, 2024
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Personal Finance

Consumers have been propping up the U.S. economy when no one else could—now the debts are being called and they can’t pay their bills

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November 8, 2023
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Personal Finance

‘Generational wealth’ influencers are touting the benefits of parents adding their kids to credit card debt—but experts warn it could go badly wrong

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October 21, 2023
Americans are showing signs of financial stress as they add $148 billion in debt and fail to pay off their credit cards
Finance

Americans are showing signs of financial stress as they add $148 billion in debt and fail to pay off their credit cards

By Jonnelle Marte, Alexandre Rajbhandari and Bloomberg
May 15, 2023
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Finance

Recession fears and rising rates are a buying opportunity for affluent Americans: ‘This is when the wealthy make their money’

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July 25, 2022
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Personal Finance

Buy-now-pay-later financing can create ‘dangerous illusion’ that purchases are cheaper than they actually are

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June 8, 2022
A person paying with MasterCard biometric card.
Tech

Mastercard’s latest test would make credit cards obsolete by letting customers use their faces and finger prints to pay in stores

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May 17, 2022
A man shops in a store in front of a logo of various credit card companies accepted in Russia.
Finance

Russia prepared for 8 years to be cut off from the West. Meet the payment system that’s still processing its credit card transactions

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April 1, 2022
Harshul Sanghi (pictured) is retiring after more than a decade building American Express’ $1.3 billion venture capital arm.

How Fortune 500 behemoth American Express quietly became a venture capital powerhouse

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CFPB Director Rohit Chopra
Finance

‘Buy now, pay later’ companies Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna, PayPal and Zip get caught up in CFPB probe

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December 16, 2021
American Express is upgrading its consumer platinum card—again—for the holidays
Lifestyle

American Express is upgrading its consumer platinum card—again—for the holidays

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October 7, 2021
Exclusive: Goldman-backed startup Bond raises $32M to let any company offer banking
Finance

Exclusive: Goldman-backed startup Bond raises $32M to let any company offer banking

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July 15, 2020
Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal Inc. and chief executive officer of Affirm Inc., listens during a Bloomberg Technology television interview in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Monday, March 19, 2018.
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Fixing the credit card business

By David Meyer and Alan Murray
February 5, 2020
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Retail

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