Keeping a credit card open for a decade or longer quietly reshapes your credit profile, your day to day money habits, and even the way lenders size you up. The plastic itself may look the same, but ...

More credit card issuers now approve applicants without a Social Security number, giving scammers new ways to commit identity ...

A lot of people open their first credit card in their early 20s and then… never really think about it again. Years pass, new cards come and go, but that original account just keeps aging nicely in the ...

I have a credit card with a small bank in Hawaii that I opened back in my early 20s. It doesn't really have great rewards, so I never use it. But I keep the account open because having nearly two ...

If you've had a given credit card for a decade or more, you might want to keep holding onto it for old times' sake -- but there's a good financial reason to keep it, too. Sure, there are some ...