American Express Co. posted declines in credit card defaults and late payments for May.

WASHINGTON — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will begin publishing credit card complaints Tuesday in a searchable database, allowing the public for the first time to scrutinize the way individual banks handle complaints.

Credit card offers mailed to consumers tapered off sharply in recent months after a resurgence in the wake of the recession, indicating a shift in large-issuer strategies.

Subprime credit card borrowers are on the move again, opening significantly more new accounts than they did during the recession as lenders ease up on their ultra-tight underwriting standards.

How long can a good thing last? Write-offs of credit card loans already have plunged below levels issuers consider sustainable. Continued improvement in delinquencies points to a further dip in loss rates in the months ahead.

Thieves know: there's money in credit cards.

Consumers are being more cautious in their use of credit cards — accounts are growing, and overall their balances are down 28% from their peak in January 2009, according to a report from Equifax.

U.S. credit card charge-offs ticked up in April, but Moody's Investors Service experts say it is merely an aberration in the general downward trend.

ORLANDO – Credit and debit sales volumes have been crisscrossing over the past 17 months, but without an obvious explanation.

China's credit card purchase volume surged by nearly 50% last year as more online merchants began accepting credit cards, but fraud is also on the rise.

The Russian credit card market grew to 422.9 billion rubles (US $13.4 billion) in receivables in the first quarter of this year, up 79% from 235.8 million rubles during the same period last year, with more than 14.5 million credit cards in circulation, according to a new research report released late last month by Russia’s Tinkoff Credit Systems bank.

Consumer borrowing surged in March by the most in more than a decade thanks to growing demand for student loans and autos.

Cross-border spending and a healthier U.S. credit card market helped boost Visa Inc.’s fiscal second-quarter earnings, the card brand announced Wednesday.

WASHINGTON–When the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently announced it planned to scale back proposed limits on credit card fees, consumer groups and some in the media immediately criticized it.

WASHINGTON – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking input for a study that could pave the way for new limits on consumer arbitration clauses.

One of the nation's largest medical collection agencies allegedly placed employees in emergency rooms, cancer wards and delivery rooms to extract payments from patients before they were seen by medical staff, according to a report released Tuesday by Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson's office.

Can card issuers heave a sigh of relief that consumers are returning to pre-recession spending patterns on credit and debit cards?

Benefitting from higher cardholder spending and low loss rates, American Express Co. posted record profits for the first quarter.

The state of Hawaii has sued seven major credit card issuers over the marketing of credit card insurance-like products, known as payment-protection plans.

By backing off a plan to limit large up-front fees banks can charge on credit cards, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau feels it has protected cardholders from other increased costs, the Associated Press reported last week.