Credit-Card Crackdown: 8 Key Issues

April 24th, 2009 | Posted in Insurance

President Obama this week called 14 top banking executives to the White House to announce he would support legislation protecting cardholders from abrupt interest-rate increases and fees, among other practices. Card issuers are fighting two cardholder-protection bills circulating on Capitol Hill — one was cleared on Wednesday for a House vote, and another will be examined next week in the Senate. Read on to see how the U.S. is trying to change eight controversial card-company practices.

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