MARIETTA - More than one in four Americans now has a FICO credit score below 600, which is considered low, and could have difficulty getting credit cards, car loans and mortgages. Statistics released from FICO Inc. show that 2.

ABOUT 70 per cent of credit card debt has been run up by only one-third of the nation's 14.5 million credit cards, latest figures show.

Consumers are pruning their debts so quickly you would think that they must be cutting their credit cards in two, reports Irwin Kellner.

Late payments for bank-provided credit cards fall to the lowest level in eight years during the first quarter, American Bankers Association data show.

BP lowers fees on its credit cards, while Barclays spent more than $750,000 on lobbying in the first