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Card companies watching your other accounts

Many credit card companies will penalize customers that show signs of trouble anywhere in their credit reports.

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The following credit card issuers will raise your interest rate because of your payment record with another issuer:

  • American Express
  • Bank One
  • Capital One
  • Chase Manhattan Bank
  • Citibank
  • Columbus Bank & Trust* (Juniper Bank card)
  • Direct Merchants Bank* (Banco Popular card)
  • Discover Bank
  • InfiBank* (Eufora MasterCard)
  • First National Bank of Omaha* (Emigrant Savings Bank credit cards)
  • First Tennessee
  • Huntington Direct Bank
  • MBNA
  • People's Bank
  • Providian
  • Sovereign Bank
  • Union State Bank
  • US Bank
  • Wells Fargo Bank

 

 
-- Posted: April 25, 2003
   

 

 
 

 

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