Credit card use has permeated almost every industry, with an estimated 30 million businesses accepting credit cards worldwide. The percentage of payments accepted via credit card continues to increase ...

We are in the holiday season, when many advisory firms send cards and gifts to all their clients. As you do so, though, remember that this is not the “most wonderful time of the year” for some of them ...

Q: Every one of our corporate clients pay us by credit card. Now, for the first time, we have been approached by a company that does not or will not use credit cards. The potential volume is quite ...

I recently stopped by a grocery store to purchase a quart of milk but when it came time to pay I was not allowed. Why? Because the grocery store owner didn’t let me use my credit card because my ...

As a financial planner, it didn't take Reese Harper long to realize that conversations in which dollars and cents dominated the discourse did little to strengthen the bond between him and his clients.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I would like to know if it’s proper for one person to hand another person a birthday card/Christmas card personally -- not one attached to a gift. It seems to me that a card should ...