by Janice Hough | Aug 4, 2026
Increasingly, it’s a cashless world. It was several years ago, in Amsterdam, when we entered our first store that only accepted credit cards. They didn’t take cash at all, a rubber duck store of all places. Now, an increasing number of merchants accept...
by Christopher Elliott | Mar 27, 2026
Securing credit cards when you travel, as well as debit cards. The experts I spoke with don’t always agree on the perfect solution — banks vary wildly in their fraud response, and technology that protects you in one scenario can create vulnerabilities in another. But...
by Christopher Elliott | Mar 26, 2026
Eric Finkel thought he’d dodged a bullet on a recent visit to Vietnam. His hotel “accidentally” charged his credit card $1,500 instead of the correct amount of $66. The staff immediately cancelled the erroneous charge right in front of him. Problem solved, right?...
by Charlie Leocha | Feb 18, 2026
200 million Americans don’t realize foreign transaction fees can apply without foreign travel US consumers waste millions of dollars each year paying foreign transaction fees on credit cards. In many cases, they don’t even know they’re paying these...
by Herb Weisbaum | May 9, 2019
Free travel sounds mighty appealing. So, it’s easy to see why travel rewards cards that offer free airline tickets or hotel rooms are popular. More than one-third of Americans (35 percent) carry a credit card in their wallet that earns travel rewards, according to a...
by Charlie Leocha | Aug 11, 2011
Fees to use credit cards in Europe for purchasing airfares are going up and spreading to mainstream airlines. Lufthansa was the latest to announce credit card fees, effective Nov. 1. They join other biggies, British Airlines and Virgin, on the credit-card-fee...
