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Credit card had a 79.9% APR from First Premier Bank - Feb. 7, 2011
Credit card had a 79.9% APR from First Premier Bank - Feb. 7, 2011
The card proved popular with consumers, said First Premier Bankcard CEO Miles Beacom, but the performance was bad: "A lot of the people ran up the card, defaulted and went directly to charge off."
There is a huge -- and growing -- need for cards serving customers with "less than perfect credit," Beacom said. However, he added, the company is now more cautious due to the Card Act, so it is only opening about 50,000 accounts a month.
...more than half of them carry a monthly balance.