Credit Report Resources

CreditCards.com: Weekly Credit Card Rate Report (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
AUSTIN, Texas----Annual percentage rates for new credit card offers rose this week, according to the CreditCards.com Weekly Credit Card Rate Report. However, that move was due to a change in the composition of cards offered rather than any APR increases by banks.
 
How to check your credit report online (Yahoo! Tech Advisors)
Reader Mark B. writes: In a recent article you wrote about checking your credit report with the three agencies, three times a year. What three credit reports? How do I get there? Is there a fee? Sometimes I take for granted certain things that some of us have known for years. But it's never too late to start checking your credit report: And if you're old enough to have a credit card, ...
 
Credit Card Companies Accomplices in Millions of Identity Theft Cases Alleges Eric Drew (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Every year millions of Americans are the victims of identity theft, and in a lawsuit filed against major credit card companies, identity theft victim Eric Drew claims that the credit industry is facilitating the crimes.
 
TD Bank to report $350 million in fourth-quarter credit losses (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
TORONTO - TD Bank (TSX:TD) says it will book $350 million in credit trading losses in its fourth quarter, the latest of Canada's big banks to report exposure to troubled financial markets.
 
Banks back mandatory CDS clearing: report (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Some of the world's top banks are backing a proposal to develop a mandatory central clearing system for the $55 trillion credit default swap (CDS) market, a report in the Financial Times said on Thursday. Dealer banks are stepping up efforts to back CDS clearing to head off a more radical overhaul, which includes a proposal to move trading of over-the-counter CDS on to an exchange, the report ...
 
Card Breaches Shake Faith in E-payments (PC World)
In the past three months, all three of my payments cards -- one credit card and two debit cards -- have been compromised.
 
TD Bank to report credit trading hit (Boston Globe)
Toronto-Dominion Bank , the parent company of Maine-based TD Banknorth, says it will report $272 million in after-tax credit trading losses in its fourth quarter.
 
Economy falters before budget report next week (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The economy, battered by the global credit crunch and facing a recession, suffered more bad news on Thursday before a key budget report due next week from the country's government.