Below are our staff picks for the year's best prepaid and debit cards. Unlike traditional credit cards, these cards require that cardholders load funds onto the card before using. Disclosure: When you ...

Given that none of us start out with perfect credit, most consumers will likely experience having bad credit at some point in their lives. In the best case, this will happen briefly on the way to a ...

That’s because legislation passed in Illinois in June 2024 — the Interchange Fee Prohibition Act (IFPA) — threatens the ...

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John Ulzheimer is an expert on credit reporting, credit scoring, and identity theft. The author of four books on the subject, Ulzheimer has been featured thousands of times in media outlets including ...

Gen Zers also appear more receptive to entrepreneurship than their precursors. The Academy Bank study cites research that ...

Like its competitors, the BitBox02 securely stores your cryptocurrency private key offline. But those are table stakes in the hardware wallet space. What differentiates BitBox is that it provides a ...

Despite what you may believe, consumers with bad credit have many credit card options. You can quickly get a secured credit card by putting down a deposit equal to your credit line, or you can choose ...

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We’ve always admired Discover for providing value to consumers. Its credit cards have minimal fees, offer good rewards, and are widely accepted nationwide. The Discover it® Cash Back credit card is ...

Erica Sandberg is a consumer finance expert and journalist whose articles and insights are featured in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, MarketWatch, Forbes, and MSN Money. An ...