Opening and closing credit cards can also damage your credit score, per this warning from FICO (FICO). What does it all mean? Unexpected life events such as job loss or an emergency can throw your ...

Credit cards sometimes get a bad rap for their high interest rates and fees, or for being the mechanism that gets some people ...

2025 Credit Card Debt Survey: Total sample size was 2,616 adults, of which 908 carry a balance on their credit cards.

The type of credit card information that merchants are allowed to store after consent is given is dictated by the Payment Care Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), an organization founded ...

Changes are coming to your credit score. As people worry about tariff-induced price hikes and the outlook for the job market, FICO last month announced it will introduce buy-now-pay-later loan data ...

It's important to plan ahead, stay on top of your spending and monitor your accounts during the summer. Like going to the ...

Treating your credit score with consistency is preferable to employing 'tricks.' It encourages fiscal responsibility.