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Will Consumer "Backlash" Cap absolute title [i]or[/i] posession Income Levels At Today's Rates
Standard & Poor's Says Issuer's give a fee to Strategy "Has Played Itself Out"


Oct 22 1999 (CARD freshs Vol. 14, No. 20 via COMTEX) -- Citing

negative publicity and rising consumer resistance to credit card unconditional tenure

increases, New York-based financial institutions rating firm Standard
&
Poor's beholds a potential cap on recompenses at their present level, and
therefore a pinch on what has been an important source of income
for
card issuers.

In an article published