Do We Really Care about Credit Card Security?
Americans' perception of credit card security does not influence credit card adoption, but it does affect the actual usage of the cards for payment....
On Tagging Mobile Payments and Starbucks
Microsoft attempts to expand on Starbucks' use of 2-D barcodes as the basis for the coffee chain's hugely successful mobile payments platform....
Why Is Capital One the Most Complained-About Credit Card Company?
Capital One accounted for 21% of all credit card-related consumer complaints in the CFPB's database, followed by Citibank, BofA, JPMorgan Chase and GE Capital....
Americans Use Credit Cards More, but Stick to Cash as Well
Americans are increasing their usage of credit and debit cards, as well as cash, but are writing fewer paper checks, a new Boston Fed study tells us....
On Rising Inequality, Household Borrowing and the Financial Crisis
The "keeping-up-with-the-Joneses" hypothesis of dramatically rising household debt in the build-up to the financial crisis of 2008 is wrong....