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What's the score? You'd best knowAZ Central.com, AZ - Aug 7, 2006... week by the Consumer Federation of America and Providian Financial found that US consumers could save $16 billion a year in lower credit card finance charges ...

Credit card firms pay $336m to settle currency conversion lawsuitFinextra (press release), UK - Jul 26, 2006... of Visa- and MasterCard-branded credit and debit ... Club, HSBC/Household, MBNA and Washington Mutual/Providian. Card accounts covered by the settlement include ...

Enforcers' might goes uncheckedBoston Globe, United States - Aug 1, 2006... She lost her cleaning business more than a decade ago, and, by 2000, had stopped making payments on a $430 Providian credit card balance. ...

UPDATE 1-Credit card companies settle suit for $336 mlnReuters - Jul 25, 2006NEW YORK, July 25 (Reuters) - Credit card companies agreed a $336 million settlement in ... Mutual Inc (WM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Providian Financial Corp ...

UPDATE 2-Credit card cos to pay $336 mln over currency feesReuters - Jul 25, 2006NEW YORK, July 25 (Reuters) - Several major credit card issuers and companies agreed to pay $336 ... (WM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Providian Financial Corp ...

John Weinberg, Goldman Leader, `Last Gentleman' Banker, DiesBloomberg - Aug 8, 2006... Lehman Brothers sold itself to American Express Co., the credit card company. ... the boards of companies including Seagram, Knight Ridder, Providian Financial Corp ...

Washington Mutual Reports Second Quarter Earnings Per Share of 79 ...Business Wire (press release), CA - Jul 19, 2006... estate 226,701 6.12 6,928 206,987 5.17 5,340 Consumer: Credit card 8,130 11.02 ... retail stores acquired through the merger with Providian Financial Corporation. ...

Wide-open market for debts feeds abusive tacticsBuffalo News,  United States - Jul 25, 2006... An exception was Providian National Bank, a San Francisco credit card issuer with 10 million accounts. Providian, now part of Washington ...

Capital One: Spoiling for a fightCNNMoney.com - Jul 20, 2006... Both MBNA and Providian, faced with stagnant growth prospects in the mature credit card industry, agreed to forgo independence last year in order to join large ...

How-To: Save on travel costsAppleton Post Crescent,  USA - Jul 20, 2006... Providian Financial, for example, charges only 1 percent on ... entire MasterCard and Visa fee, so card holders pay no ... fees also may be lower for credit cards that ...