Prostitutes don't take credit cards or checks.

Sami stole Layla's credit cards.

We accept all major credit cards.

Thatcher herself was not an enthusiast for credit, once famously saying, I don t believe in credit cards.

Although debit cards remain far more common, banks like China Merchants Bank have been aggressive in issuing real credit cards.

Non cash transactions may also be made by means of credit cards.

It included, inter alia, criminalizing identity fraud and misuse of Government credit cards.

Losses are spreading from sub prime to near prime and prime mortgages, commercial mortgages, and unsecured consumer credit (credit cards, auto loans, student loans).

They will focus initially on sectors such as credit cards but could develop other joint ventures.

They are likely to place much greater emphasis on consumer lending, especially mortgages and credit cards.

ICTs enabled finance tools include credit or payment cards for export financing or short term working capital.

Telephone lines (credit cards required) and 110 volt electrical outlets media using laptops must provide their own modems

The same holds for households, with millions of weaker and poorer borrowers defaulting on mortgages, credit cards, auto loans, student loans, and other forms of consumer credit.

In 2006, Bank AL Habib became partners with MasterCard allowing them to issue credit cards for the first time.

The French have always been less likely to go into debt when they pay with plastic, they tend to use debit cards, drawing on funds they already have, rather than credit cards.

But non prime borrowers about one third of US households do not have much access to mortgages and credit cards.

Moreover, the increased availability of credit cards gave Americans a greater ability to dissave, buying goods and services now and paying for them later.

In addition to the downturn in real estate, a broader bubble in consumer credit is now collapsing as the US economy slips into recession, defaults on credit cards, auto loans, and student loans will increase sharply.

Domestic demand is playing an ever more important role in underpinning growth as interest rates drop and the availability of credit cards and mortgages increases.

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However, beyond the mortgage market, other huge risks are lurking, especially in the US financial system credit cards, car loans, and presumably a few other things.

By making use of off the shelf technologies, data from genuine credit cards can be compromised in one country in the morning, counterfeit cards produced in the afternoon in another, then used elsewhere again. The countries may not even be on the same continent.

A recent investigation uncovered a stockpile of chequebooks, credit cards and forged documents which had been used to obtain goods which could then be returned for cash.

Thatcher herself was not an enthusiast for credit, once famously saying, I don t believe in credit cards. Indeed, she espoused a rigorous philosophy about borrowing The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.

That experience confirms that, in spite of all your limitations all your wants, desires, unfulfilled, and the credit cards and layoffs and, finally, baldness you can be happy.

As the recession deepens, however, bank balance sheets will be hammered further by a wave of defaults in commercial real estate, credit cards, private equity, and hedge funds.

If nothing nasty happens losses on mortgages, commercial real estate, business loans, and credit cards the banks might just be able to make it through without another crisis.

For example, the fraudulent use of credit and debit cards by sophisticated organized criminal groups making use of advanced counterfeiting technologies has now become a truly globalized business.

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China s GDP growth, which relies heavily on credit, will take a hit.

Major credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diner's Card) and travellers' cheques in major foreign currencies are generally accepted in leading hotels, restaurants, department stores and several large stores.

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Sami dealt the cards.

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Europe s National Wild Cards

The French have always been less likely to go into debt when they pay with plastic, they tend to use debit cards, drawing on funds they already have, rather than credit cards. Now they see the current crisis as a vindication of the value of not spending money that you don t have.

We seem to take for granted remarkable achievements and do not give ourselves enough credit.