by Nanette Duffey | Jan 27, 2026 | Credit Cards, Insights, Travel
Ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft offer convenient, on-demand transportation. Still, success depends on understanding key factors like your passenger rating, credit card bonuses, and specialized services for seniors or kids. A strong rating ensures quicker...
by Nanette Duffey | Jun 25, 2024 | Credit Reports and Scores, Financial Literacy, Fraud Protection, Insights
Living in today’s world with ever-changing digital scams and more frequent online personal information data breaches, how can we protect the credit histories of the next generation? Simply being deemed old enough to have a credit card does not mean one should own a...
by Nanette Duffey | Jun 20, 2023 | Credit Reports and Scores, Insights
Flip on an episode of the Great British Baking Show, and you’ll see firsthand how judges impact the outcome. These experts see the exact same performance but rate the outcomes in different ways influenced by the weight they place on the components. The same variation...
by Nanette Duffey | Jun 12, 2023 | Credit Reports and Scores, Insights
If you have a credit card, a car loan, or a mortgage, you have a credit score. This score, either high or low or somewhere in between, informs lenders of how well you manage current and past credit opportunities. Do you pay card account balances off routinely? Are you...
by Nanette Duffey | Jun 5, 2023 | Financial Literacy, Insights
Credit cards can be a blessing or a curse when it comes to credit scores and debt. According to an article on debt.org, credit cards were first introduced in the late 1950s by Bank of America and are now held by more than 191 million Americans. In fact, the average...
