WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve on Thursday will vote on sweeping reform of the credit card industry that would ban practices such as retroactively increasing interest rates at will and charging late fees when consumers are not given a reasonable amount of time to make payments.
Fed could remake credit card regulations
Saturday, December 13, 2008 | 5:09 p.m. CST
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