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Leading Credit Card Providers
By Jin Kim

There are hundreds of banks and financial organizations providing credit cards in the United States. American Express Co., Discover Financial Services, Citibank of America, Chase Bank and HSBC Bank are some of the prominent players in the business.

American Express Co., operating in over 130 countries around the globe, offers a number of credit cards to meet the different needs of various customers including common man, businessman and students. Some of the American Express credit cards currently available are: Blue from American Express, Blue Cash, Blue for Students, Blue Sky from American Express, Optima Platinum Card, Clear from American Express. The company also provides city-based credit cards like New York City Card, Chicago Card and Los Angeles Card. You can avail several benefits with these cards.

Blue from American Express has no annual fee and a competitive 0% APR for the first 15 months. It provides a grace period or free period up to 20 days. You can also apply for additional cards and you do not have to pay any fee. Besides, you can share all the benefits and services with the additional card holders. It is also suitable for balance transfer. It offers a low balance transfer fixed APR of 3.99% until you pay the balance in full. There are several other benefits you can get with this card.

Another big player in credit card market, Chase Bank offers a number of credit cards under different categories. It provides general purpose credit cards, rebate credit cards, retail cards, student cards, entertainment cards, travel cards, military cards, sports cards and business cards. Under general purpose cards, it has Chase Flexible Rewards Visa Cards, Chase Free Cash Rewards, Chase Platinum Master Card, Chase Platinum Visa Card, Chase Perfect Card and Chase Travel Plus. There are cash back offers, discounts in purchases with these cards.

With Chase Flexible Rewards Visa Cards, you can get incentives with every dollar you spend. You will get 1 point for every $1 you spend and when you collect 2,500 points you can redeem for your choice of travel, cash, and merchandise or gift certificates/gift cards. You do not have to pay any annual fee for this card. It charges 0% fixed APR for up to 12 months and after that you will be charged a variable APR of 13.99%.

Discover Financial Services, a business unit of Morgan Stanley, provides Discover credit cards. Under this card brand, you can avail Discover Classic Card, Discover Gold Card, Discover Platinum Card, Miles Card from Discover Card and an array of affinity cards. It has also special cards like Discover student cards and Discover credit cards.

With the Discover Platinum card, you will get cash reward with every purchase. It provides 5% cash back on purchases made at some select products and up to 1% cash back on all other purchases. Its APR is 0% for purchases until the last day of the billing period ending August 2007. Thereafter you will be charge the standard APR, an estimated rate between 11.24% and 18.24%. It offers 0% APR for balance transfers till the last day of the billing period. After that the standard APR for purchases is charged. In case of default, the APR will be between 16.24% and 28.99%. For cash advances, it charges 21.99% for Discover Gold Card, 20.99% for Discover Platinum Card, and 22.99% for Discover Classic Card.

Bank of America, one of the world's leading financial service companies for individuals, small businesses, commercial, corporate and institutional clients, offers credit cards for different categories of people beside the standard credit cards. It has a wide variety of low APR, 0% intro APR, airline mile and reward credit cards. There are other credit card providers like Capital One, MBNA Corporation, First USA Bank, Providian JCB International Credit Card Co., Juniper Bank, Cetelem, Orchard Bank, AirPlus International, Direct Merchants Bank, USA Paycard, RBC Royal Bank, First Premier Bank, etc.

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