scholarly journals Risky Business: Legal and Economic Perspectives on South Korea's Individual Debtor Rehabilitation Acts

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Jasper Kim
Keyword(s):  
Asset Management ◽  
Credit Card ◽  
Consumer Credit ◽  
Credit Cards ◽  
Response Mode ◽  
Credit Counseling ◽  
The Government ◽  
Economic Perspectives ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Risky Business

Two years following the 1997-98 Korean financial crisis, the Korean government attempted to bolster consumer spending and re-invigorate the national economy by pursuing a series of policies that directly promoted the use of consumer credit cards. Subsequently, consumer credit card spiked upward, which led to a dramatic surge in individual debtor defaults. The government in response mode again thereafter initiated a three-pronged legislative effort to counter the post-1997 individual debtor polemic: (i) the Individual Debtor Rehabilitation Act (“IDRA” or the “Act”); (ii)) the Korea Asset Management Company’s Bad Bank (KAMCO or “Bad Bank”); and (iii) the Credit Counseling and Recovery Service (CCRS) (collectively, the “Legal Acts”). This paper surveys and analyzes the Legal Acts approach to resolving South Korea’s post-1997 consumer credit card spending polemic.

scholarly journals The COVID-19 Shock and Consumer Credit: Evidence from Credit Card Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (008) ◽  
pp. 1-55
Author(s):  
Akos Horvath ◽  
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Benjamin Kay ◽  
Carlo Wix ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Credit Card ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Consumer Credit ◽  
Credit Cards ◽  
Sharp Decrease ◽  
Main Driver ◽  
Credit Card Data ◽  
Pandemic Severity ◽  
The Impact

We use credit card data from the Federal Reserve Board's FR Y-14M reports to study the impact of the COVID-19 shock on the use and availability of consumer credit across borrower types from March through August 2020. We document an initial sharp decrease in credit card transactions and outstanding balances in March and April. While spending starts to recover by May, especially for risky borrowers, balances remain depressed overall. We find a strong negative impact of local pandemic severity on credit use, which becomes smaller over time, consistent with pandemic fatigue. Restrictive public health interventions also negatively affect credit use, but the pandemic itself is the main driver. We further document a large reduction in credit card originations, especially to risky borrowers. Consistent with a tightening of credit supply and a flight-to-safety response of banks, we find an increase in interest rates of newly issued credit cards to less creditworthy borrowers.

The “Everything Card” and Consumer Credit in the United States in the 1960s

2011 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 551-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Zumello
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Commercial Bank ◽  
Credit Card ◽  
Consumer Credit ◽  
Credit Cards ◽  
The United States ◽  
Retail Banking ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Legislative Action ◽  
The 1960S

First National City Bank (FNCB) of New York launched the Everything Card in the summer of 1967. A latecomer in the field of credit cards, FNCB nonetheless correctly recognized a promising business model for retail banking. FNCB attempted not only to ride the wave of mass consumption but also to capitalize on the profit-generating potential of buying on credit. Although the venture soon failed, brought down by the losses that plagued the bank due to fraud, consumer discontent, and legislative action, this final attempt by a major single commercial bank to launch its own plan did not signify the end of credit cards. On the contrary, the Everything Card was a harbinger of the era of the universal credit card.

scholarly journals An Empirical Investigation on Credit Card Repayment Pattern of Academicians in Malaysia

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuah Yoke Chin ◽  
Wei Chooi Yi ◽  
Chin Lai Kwan ◽  
Chia Mei Si
Keyword(s):  
Credit Card ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Credit Cards ◽  
Tertiary Institution ◽  
Moderating Variables ◽  
Personal Attitude ◽  
Credit Card Market ◽  
The Government ◽  
Informed Society ◽  
Moderating Role

The credit card market has witnessed tremendous growth resulting from a paradigm shift in technology. The genuine usage of credit cards as a form of convenience has diverged to overspending, irresponsibility, revolving liability and bankruptcy. This implies that possession of credit cards has brought about a change in users’ repayment behavior. Thus, this study aims to determine academicians’ credit card repayment pattern in a private tertiary institution in Malaysia. The dependent variable is the repayment pattern and the independent variables that serve as the attributes include personal attitude and spending pattern, while, gender and parenthood serve as the moderating variables. Findings revealed that personal attitude and spending pattern were important attributes in determining the repayment pattern among the academicians. Gender and parenthood were found to play a moderating role in the repayment pattern. Findings from this study is expected to facilitate the government and credit card companies to work towards nurturing a financially healthier and informed society, and also to  each out positively to the younger generations through the influence of the academicians.  

scholarly journals Perlindungan Hukum Nasabah Kartu Kredit dalam Perspektif Undang-Undang Nomor 8 Tahun 1999

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-149
Author(s):  
Nyoman Triananda Prayoga ◽  
I Nyoman Sujana ◽  
Ni Made Puspasutari Ujianti
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Credit Card ◽  
Credit Cards ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
Plastic Card ◽  
The Government ◽  
Legal Consequences

At this time the technology has been developing rapidly, as well as means of payment. If the first payment can only be done with cash, current payment already can be done by credit card. When the first buyers and sellers have to meet directly, unlike with the current buyers no longer have to meet with the seller directly. A credit card is a plastic card issued by a bank that provides credit services. But many cases credit card used another person, which is possible because the card is missing or scams online, these problems can be analysed as follows: 1) What kind of legal protection for customers according to credit card Consumer Protection Legislation? 2) How the legal consequences if a credit card were used by someone else? This presentation uses research methods are normative, legal rules and legal norms according are the norm in the form of orders or prohibitions it in accordance with the principle of the law and whether one's actions is in compliance with legal norms with the approach of legislative and conceptual. This research requires a source of secondary legal materials as primary legal materials. Form of legal protection given by the Government in the form of legislation, but the legislation has not been effective. Legal consequences if the credit card used another person's credit card, the customer must still pay the Bills that go up to the customer to report in writing. The Government should streamline the laws and make special laws about credit cards as well as the bank and the customer must be open.

scholarly journals The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Islamic Credit Cards

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Zaimy Johana Johan ◽  
Mohd Zainee Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Market Share ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Credit Card ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Credit Cards ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Industry Growth ◽  
Growth Area ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Performance

The Malaysian Islamic financial services have developed and thrived in the competitive domestic and global financial market especially in the last three decades.  The Government has provided the industry conducive enabling environment to catalyse the industry growth and development. Islamic finance has gained prominence and been identified as the growth area in the nation’s financial sector.  The Bank Negara Malaysia Annual Report 2020 published on 3 April 2020 amongst others highlights that with an advanced regulatory framework already in place, Islamic finance is poised to play a more prominent role in the coming period, particularly in its potential to apply shariah principles to expand social finance and address market gaps in innovative ways.  With a range of innovative shariah compliant products and services, the halal financial services have gained market acceptance from both Muslims and non-Muslims alike, albeit with different levels of acceptance according to the products.  Specifically, to a certain degree it appears that the market has been more receptive of other Islamic financial services such as loans for various purposes including purchases of securities, properties, vehicles; working capital and even personal loans than the credit cards.  According to the Bank Negara Monthly Statistical Bulletin: Monthly Highlights and Statistics in September 2020, as of September 2020, Islamic banks had disbursed 35.7% or RM651.4 billion of the total loans in the banking system in September 2020.  The Islamic credit cards however have a lower market share of 10.2% or RM3.7 billion of total credit card transactions.  The slower growth pace, lower market share and performance of Islamic credit cards vis–a-vis conventional credit cards, and also compared with other Islamic financial products merit further scrutiny and analysis to help better understand the issues pertinent the growth of the Islamic credit cards. Issues such as why other Islamic loans and hire purchase products have performed better; why the slower growth of Islamic credit cards; customers and market expectation of Islamic credit cards; Islamic credit card product development and marketing strategies need to be carefully examined in order to overcome Islamic credit card growth conundrum.

Debtor Nation

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Hyman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Credit Card ◽  
Consumer Credit ◽  
The United States ◽  
Small Time ◽  
Subprime Lending ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
American Capitalism ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government

Before the twentieth century, personal debt resided on the fringes of the American economy, the province of small-time criminals and struggling merchants. By the end of the century, however, the most profitable corporations and banks in the country lent money to millions of American debtors. How did this happen? This, the first book to follow the history of personal debt in modern America, traces the evolution of debt over the course of the twentieth century, following its transformation from fringe to mainstream—thanks to federal policy, financial innovation, and retail competition. How did banks begin making personal loans to consumers during the Great Depression? Why did the government invent mortgage-backed securities? Why was all consumer credit, not just mortgages, tax deductible until 1986? Who invented the credit card? Examining the intersection of government and business in everyday life, the book takes the reader behind the scenes of the institutions that made modern lending possible: the halls of Congress, the boardrooms of multinationals, and the back rooms of loan sharks. America's newfound indebtedness resulted not from a culture in decline, but from changes in the larger structure of American capitalism that were created, in part, by the choices of the powerful—choices that made lending money to facilitate consumption more profitable than lending to invest in expanded production. From the origins of car financing to the creation of subprime lending, the book presents a nuanced history of consumer credit practices in the United States and shows how little loans became big business.

scholarly journals Regulating Consumer Financial Products: Evidence from Credit Cards *

2014 ◽  
Vol 130 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumit Agarwal ◽  
Souphala Chomsisengphet ◽  
Neale Mahoney ◽  
Johannes Stroebel
Keyword(s):  
Credit Card ◽  
Financial Regulation ◽  
Consumer Credit ◽  
Credit Cards ◽  
Set Covering ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Financial Products ◽  
Regulatory Limits ◽  
Over Time

Abstract We analyze the effectiveness of consumer financial regulation by considering the 2009 Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act. We use a panel data set covering 160 million credit card accounts and a difference-in-differences research design that compares changes in outcomes over time for consumer credit cards, which were subject to the regulations, to changes for small business credit cards, which the law did not cover. We estimate that regulatory limits on credit card fees reduced overall borrowing costs by an annualized 1.6% of average daily balances, with a decline of more than 5.3% for consumers with FICO scores below 660. We find no evidence of an offsetting increase in interest charges or a reduction in the volume of credit. Taken together, we estimate that the CARD Act saved consumers $11.9 billion a year. We also analyze a nudge that disclosed the interest savings from paying off balances in 36 months rather than making minimum payments. We detect a small increase in the share of accounts making the 36-month payment value but no evidence of a change in overall payments.

The Transactions Demand for Credit Cards

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen W. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Credit Card ◽  
Consumer Credit ◽  
Credit Cards ◽  
Credit Card Debt ◽  
Financial Vulnerability ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Payment Instruments ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract I argue that the measure of credit card debt used by researchers has grown rapidly in part because it captures debt arising from transactions in which a credit card is used because of its advantages over other payment instruments. Increases in debt stemming from such use may not signal greater household financial vulnerability if households are willing and able to repay this short-term debt. However, it may suggest that the cost of using credit cards to pay for purchases has declined relative to other payment instruments. I conclude that had transactions demand remained at its real 1992 levels, rather than growing almost 15 percent per year, measured credit card debt would have grown a bit less than 1 percentage point slower per year between 1992 and 2001. Moreover, I show that removing transactions demand from aggregate consumer credit can alter conclusions about the relationship between credit and consumption.

scholarly journals A Fool and his Money are Soon Parted: A Critical Examination of Credit Card Websites

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 642-658
Author(s):  
Annabelle Mooney
Keyword(s):  
Credit Card ◽  
Credit Cards ◽  
Language Choice ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
Multimodal Analysis ◽  
Great Responsibility ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

This paper critiques the idea that a fool and their money are soon parted by using multimodal analysis to explore one of the ways in which people are parted from money: credit cards. I analyse the homepages of two products, the ‘best’ and ‘worst’ as rated by UK consumer organisation Which? In order to understand the range of communication used in these websites, I employ a multimodal analysis of their language, choice of colour, typeface, layout and images (Kress & van Leeuwen 2006; van Leeuwen 2005, 2011). Together, these show that the individual is constructed in different ways by the two products. For the card rated best, the viewer is constructed as a trustworthy consumer who is rewarded for this with further opportunities for consumption. For the card rated as worst, the viewer is positioned as a failed, but redeemable, consumer. The different constructions of the consumer also suggest that ‘credit’ is desirable but ‘debt’ is not. Taking into account the moral complexity of debt, I suggest that the lexical item credit card would be better changed to debt token . I argue that the real foolishness is the system itself, the one that credit cards (‘debt tokens’) index and exemplify. Taking the two sites together, I show that consumption is constructed as both desirable and risky. As credit cards construct the individual as an (isolated) person with few rights and great responsibility (Henry 2010), I suggest that these sites index the central role of the individual as a consumer. A good citizen is parted from their money.

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