Xbox Credit Card Will Offer Reward Points for Games
Microsoft is following Apple and getting into the credit card business with the Xbox Mastercard.
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Widespread Outage Locks Cash App Users Out of Funds
Mobile payment services Cash App and Square have been down for the better part of
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Student loan borrowers are frustrated with servicers ahead of payment restart
With less than a month before federal student loan payments restart after the years-long pandemic pause, many borrowers are having a hard time connecting with their loan servicer.
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4 million people enroll in Biden's SAVE student loan repayment plan ahead of payment restart
More than 4 million people have so far enrolled in President Joe Biden's new repayment plan, known as SAVE, which promises to lower their monthly bills as student loan payments are set to resume in October after a yearslong pandemic-related pause.
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Country Garden dodges default by making last minute debt payments, state media reports
Country Garden, the embattled Chinese real estate firm, made late interest payments on two US dollar bonds shortly before the end of a 30-day grace period, avoiding an imminent debt default, according to multiple state media reports.
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Country Garden gets 'near-term reprieve' after bondholders agree to extend debt payment
Investors in embattled Chinese property giant Country Garden are breathing a collective sigh of relief Monday, after it reportedly won approval from creditors to extend a major bond payment to avoid default, in a development that analysts say will give the firm some badly needed respite.
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Student loan interest resumes Friday and payments restart in October. Here's what borrowers should know
For the first time in more than three years, federal student loan borrowers will be required to pay their monthly student loan bills starting in October. The pandemic-related pause, which went into effect in March 2020, provided relief to nearly 44 million borrowers by freezing their accounts.
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Vietnam joins Southeast Asian effort on cross-border payments
JAKARTA Vietnam's central bank signed an agreement on Friday to be part of an initiative by five other
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Nigeria's ex-oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke charged with bribery in the UK
Diezani Alison-Madueke is alleged to have accepted financial rewards for awarding oil contracts.
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Starbucks must pay another $2.7 million to employee who said she was fired for being White
A New Jersey court ordered Starbucks to pay an additional $2.7 million to a former employee who successfully sued the company for wrongful termination, claiming she was fired for being White.
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Central banks of Indonesia and Singapore start trial on cross-border QR code payments
JAKARTA Indonesia's central bank said on Thursday it had started a trial of cross-border QR code payments with
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Nevada GOP Senate candidate raised money to help other candidates -- the funds mostly paid down his old campaign's debt instead
Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown created a political action committee to "help elect Republicans" but most of its funds were spent paying down debt from his failed previous campaign. The group donated less than 7% of its funds to the candidates it was set up to support, according to campaign finance records -- a move one campaign finance expert likened to using the PAC as a "slush fund."
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