Credit Card Rewards NEWS

Starting July 1, holders of Chase Freedom® credit cards can earn 5% cash back for purchases in special Q3 2020 bonus categories. The new quarter favors eligible Chase customers with enhanced rewards on Whole Foods Market and Amazon.com purchases. Chase states that all Whole Foods Market purchases made before October 1 will qualify for 5% […]

The coronavirus pandemic has affected everyone. Many people were to remain without earnings. To support people, many banks have developed relief programs and offer customers, for example, defer payments, temporarily reduce interest, increase credit limits, etc. American Express don’t stand aside either. But in addition to the Financial Hardship Program, the issuer also decided to […]

Capital One keeps adding new rewards redemption options to its travel credit cards. To be more precise, holders of Venture and Spark credit cards can now transfer accumulated miles to even more loyalty programs. Surprisingly, new transfer partners are not airlines, as it could be expected, but large hotel chains AccorHotels and Wyndham Hotels & […]

When the new year is on the way, everyone wants to not only resume the previous one but also draw up new plans and resolutions. This applies to your credit card rewards as well. If you are a happy owner of a cashback credit card with rotating quarterly categories, you probably were looking forward to December to find out what the issuer would prepare for you this time and where you could get more benefits.

This month, Capital One added an important extra redemption option for some of its credit cards. Such an introduction will surely appeal to lovers of shopping at online stores, and, more precisely, at Amazon.com. Yes, now owners of most Capital One credit cards get the opportunity to spend the rewards they earn on millions of Amazon items (except the restricted ones) due to a new partnership!

It has just been announced that Capital One and Walmart are preparing to release their new product – the Capital One Walmart Rewards Credit Card Program. The program will be available on two new co-branded credit cards that are specially designed for customers shopping at Walmart.

On April 22 the Canadian direct bank Tangerine Bank introduced an improved sign-up bonus offer for their no-annual fee cash back credit card – the Tangerine Money-Back Credit Card. Founded by ING Group in 1997, Tangerine Bank was acquired by Scotiabank in 2012 and now besides the Mastercard cash back card offers savings and chequing accounts, mutual funds and mortgages.

Capital One cardholders have a great opportunity to get cash for miles earned with the Venture Rewards or the VentureOne Rewards cards. The advertising says: “Just pick up and go.” And in fact, Venture travel rewards cards make it easy to earn unlimited miles and redeem for any recent travel purchase.

The inaugural J.D. Power Credit Card Satisfaction Study found that when it comes to choosing a credit card, it’s all about rewards. But just offering rewards isn’t enough: cardholders have to understand how to redeem them, as well.

Travelers will be able to collect more points and take advantage of more special features with the new and improved Southwest Rapid Rewards Priority card, which is offering a limited-time introductory bonus of up to 65,000 reward points. This is more than half the points needed to get a companion pass, once they’ve spent the required amount on the card.