First-quarter 90+ card delinquency remains at 1.29%, a five-year high among the Top 4 U.S. credit card issuers. The average late stage card delinquency ratio was flat sequentially, and up seven basis points (bps) year-on-year (YOY) for the first-quarter (1Q/19). Meanwhile, early stage credit card delinquency (30+ days) for 1Q/19, among the nation’s Top 4…
First-quarter charge-offs among the Big 6 domestic credit card issuers rose sharply as loan loss reserves are beefed-up across-the-board. Credit card charge-offs among the nation’s Big 6 credit card issuers rose 14 basis points (bps) year-on-year (YOY) for the first-quarter (1Q/19), and up 34 bps sequentially. The Big 6 (Chase [JPM], Capital One [COF], Bank…
First-quarter card loans, among the Top 4 U.S. issuers, grew 3.4% year-on-year (YOY), compared to 1.5% in the prior quarter. Among the nation’s Top 4 credit card issuers (Chase [JPM], Capital One [COF], Bank of America [BAC], and Citibank [C]), the annual growth rate for U.S. end-of-period (EOP) credit card outstandings in the first-quarter (1Q/19)…
First-Quarter card delinquency among the nation’s top issuers dipped slightly from the prior quarter, due to the seasonality and increased repayments of post-holiday portfolio outstandings. However, over the past five years, the first-quarter delinquency ratio has been on an upward trend, rising 40 basis points (40 bps) from the first-quarter of 2015. Second-Quarter Card Delinquency…
First-quarter Chase volume for U.S. credit cards rose nearly 10% and outstandings were up 7% as charge-offs and loan loss reserves increased and credit card revenue was flat, compared to one-year ago. Chase U.S. credit card purchase dollar volume (PDV), excluding business cards, increased 9.8% YOY to $172.5 billion for 1Q/19, compared to $185.3 billion…
First-quarter rates for U.S.-issued major credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover) increased by 146 basis points (bps) between the first quarter 2018 (1Q/18) and 1Q/19, as the U.S. prime rate increased by 75 bps. The average credit card rate charged by the nation’s Top 100 banks hit 15.09% in 1Q/19, compared to 13.63% for…
First quarter profits for the first quarter (1Q/19) for the four largest networks and the credit card businesses of four largest issuers will likely be all over the map starting tomorrow as Chase releases its first quarter numbers before the opening bell. The first quarter is historically a slow consumer spending period and a time…
U.S. issuer credit card active accounts (AAC) (accounts with sales activity), among the top six U.S. issuers, increased 3.1%% year-on-year (YOY) in the fourth quarter (4Q/18), compared to 5.6% YOY in 2017. There were 161.4 million active bank credit card accounts for 4Q/18 in the U.S. among the top six issuers: Citibank [C]; Capital One…
U.S. credit cards issued among the Big 6 issuers grew 3.6% year-on-year (YOY) at the end of the fourth quarter (4Q/18), up 11.9 million cards-in-force (CIF) YOY to 345.7 million cards, compared to 343.4 million in 3Q/18 and 333.8 million for 4Q/17, according to CardData. The Big 6: (Chase [JPM], Capital One [COF], Bank of…
The earnings report season for the payments industry will open before the stock market opens on Friday, April 12. Wells Fargo 8:00 a.m. (ET) will be out of the gate first, followed by Chase at 8:30 a.m. (ET). The first three months of 2019 have been nothing short of a rocky road, starting with the…
Credit card accounts in the U.S. for the Big 6 issuers grew by 10 million in 2018. Over the past five years gross open accounts (GAC) for U.S. credit cards among the nation’s six largest issuers expanded by 40 million. In the fourth quarter (4Q/18) the year-on-year (YOY) gain in GAC was 3.7%. At the…
U.S. credit cards-in-force (CIF) among the Top 4 U.S. issuers slowed up in 2018, growing 2.7% year-on-year (YOY), compared to 4.8% in the prior year. For the fourth quarter (4Q/18) and among the Top 4 U.S issuers there were an estimated 228.2 million credit U.S. CIF, compared to 226.3 million in 3Q/18, and 222.3 million…