Life insurance is a crucial aspect of financial planning. It provides financial support to your loved ones in case of your untimely death. Different types of life insurance policies are available in the market, including term life insurance, whole life insurance, and universal life insurance. One of the most popular types of term life insurance is decreasing term life insurance. What is Decreasing Term Life Insurance? Decreasing term life insurance is a type of term life insurance where the death benefit decreases over the policy term. It’s designed to cover a specific debt or liability that decreases over time, such as a mortgage or a business loan. The premium stays the same throughout the policy term, but the death benefit reduces at a predetermined rate. For example, suppose you take out a decreasing term life insurance policy to cover your mortgage. The policy term is 30 years, and the death Continue reading
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Current Situation of Credit Card Business
The previous (current) financial crisis has severe effects on the business of companies in the credit card business. For a long time, the credit card business has been regarded as one of the most profitable businesses in the financial services industry. MasterCard was one of the most successful companies with its business model differing in one important point from its competitors. Most of the companies in the credit card business issue their cards on their own (including market leader American Express), whereas MasterCard and its main competitor VISA operate through a franchise system which allows its partners (banks) to issue cards of MasterCard. The company is therefore not a direct business partner of cardholders but with the banks which have the right to issue its cards. MasterCard itself states that it is more a franchisor than an issuer of cards. It is therefore not directly exposed to the possibility of Continue reading