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What Are Contactless Payments?

A contactless payment occurs when you pay for something with a credit card, debit card, or mobile device without making physical contact (or making only minor physical contact,

Should You Get a Second Credit Card?

Why Should You Get a Second Credit Card?

Credit cards are a bit like cars—one will usually get you where you need to be, but a second could prove invaluable should there ever be problems with the first. Or it may simply

How to Prevent Your Credit Card from Demagnetizing

How to Keep Credit Cards from Demagnetizing

The magnetic stripe of your credit card contains a lot of sensitive data necessary to conduct a credit card transaction, such as the account number, the cardholder’s name, the

Explaining Pet Credit Cards

What Is a Pet Credit Card?

What is a “pet credit card”? Depending on who you ask, you’re likely to get multiple definitions. This infographic by Credit One Bank offers several options as to what someone

How EMV Chip Credit Cards Work

How to Use a Credit Card with a Chip

The days of swiping your credit card are on their way out. That’s because magnetic-stripe technology—that stripe on the back of your credit card that contains information read by

Selecting the Right Type of Credit Card

Choosing the Right Type of Credit Card for You

Think there’s only one type of credit card? Think again. There’s a credit card out there for just about every kind of consumer with most any credit score.

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