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E-payments are essential in China, but still tricky for foreign visitors

by Jennifer Pak
Sep 26, 2024
China has simplified some of its mobile payment app set ups to make it easier for visitors, but how easy are they to use?
WeChat is one of two key mobile payment apps that have dominated daily life in China since the pandemic.
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Along with higher prices, credit card delinquency rates are rising

by Justin Ho
Sep 12, 2024
A new report suggests that could dampen holiday spirits.
Credit card delinquencies are rising due to consumers grappling with higher prices.
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Can credit card companies plant the trees they say they will?

by Janet Nguyen
Feb 10, 2022
Planting is one thing, experts say. Maintaining a tree is a different story.
A Sitka spruce is planted at the North Doddington site in Doddington, England.
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Using coronavirus relief to pay down credit cards

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Aug 6, 2020
Credit card debt was down by $76 billion in the second quarter, the steepest decline in card balances since tracking started.
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Consumer lending is a bright spot for big banks

by Justin Ho
Oct 17, 2019
Even as retail sales growth is showing signs of stalling, consumers are continuing to borrow.
The JP Morgan Chase headquarters in Manhattan.
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Thieves have been stealing credit card info at gas pumps. Now there's an app to foil them.

by Shalina Chatlani
Sep 6, 2019
"Skimmers" capture credit card data and can transmit it wirelessly to criminals.
Skimmer circuits can record thousands of credit card numbers and transmit them via Bluetooth to a criminal’s computer.
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Why Apple encourages holders of its new credit card not to swipe it

by Ben Bradford
Mar 26, 2019
Apple’s launch event Monday for the first time included no new iPhones, Macs, Apple Watches or other devices.
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Why can’t you pay for more things with a wave of your mobile phone?

by Molly Wood
Feb 25, 2019
We were promised mobile payments, but seems they're off with the jetpacks somewhere.
Guests demo Samsung Pay at Samsung Unpacked in 2015 in New York City.
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We have the chips, but how safe is online shopping?

by Annie Baxter
Nov 25, 2016
You're still an easy target online, where so much holiday shopping actually happens.
Shoppers buy gifts at the Toys'R'Us store during early Black Friday events on November 24, 2016 in Paramus, New Jersey. Although Black Friday sales are expected to be strong, many shoppers are opting to buy early or online, with retailers offering year round sales and other incentives that are expected to ease crowds.
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Are chip implants the payment method of the future?

by Kai Ryssdal
May 24, 2016
BuzzFeed’s Charlie Warzel had an RFID chip implanted in his hand and lived to talk about it.
An employee of internet security company Kaspersky Lab has a microchip implanted in the area between his thumb and the index finger during a Kaspersky Lab press conference on biological, psychological and technological implications of microchip implants ahead of the opening of the 55th IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) electronics trade fair in Berlin on September 3, 2015. 
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