Aug
04
2025
Here’s the best-ever offer for the premium Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant American Express Card.
Worth $1,200? Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant Card Returns With All-Time High 185,000 Point Bonus
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Marriott Bonvoy Business Amex Card Improves Bonus To 125,000 Points—Time To Apply?
Aug
03
2025
American Express is offering an initial bonus of 125,000 points after spending $8,000 within 6 months of cardmembership for the Marriott Bonvoy Business® American Express® Card. This is a nice improvement of a 100,000 point offer, and you have a full six months to meet the required spend.
Citibank Just Made Your AAdvantage Card Obsolete For Earning Miles—Here’s Why
Jul
29
2025
Without Ameircan AAdvantage, the ThankYou points program was a bit of an also-ran. It lacked a strong U.S. airline, including just JetBlue. And while it has a number of hotel programs, it doesn’t have the top tier ones.
Now, though, it’s the only bank rewards currency that transfers to American. No bank has a better oneworld partner.
80K Bonus, $1,200 In First Cardmember Year Credits, And American Airlines Benefits: Citi’s New Premium Card Is A Goldmine
Jul
29
2025
Along with this new card, Citi has also brought American AAdvantage onboard as a transfer partner, which is huge. AAdvantage cards earn 1 point per dollar on most spend. Even unbonused spend with this card earns 1.5x. So you’re earning more American miles for your spend than with an American card, plus you have flexibility to move points elsewhere (or redeem directly for travel, etc.).
Amex CEO: We Used To Make Benefits Hard To Use—Now Reveals Plan For Even Higher Fees
Jul
20
2025
American Express still sees headroom to charge customers more, and make them feel o.k. with it by selling access to their cardmembers to adjacent brands in exchange for coupons and discounts. That strategy will work until they reach some theoretical limit – but they haven’t found it yet. As long as they keep promising you a somewhat better experience in aspirational portions of your life like travel, you will keep paying and keep spending on their cards.
Finally, A Travel Portal Worth Using: Bilt Rewards Offers Direct Airline & Hotel Booking, Free Virtuoso Luxury Benefits
Jul
17
2025
Bilt Rewards has launched a new travel portal and it promises to fix everything customers hate about travel portals. In fact, it aims to actually make travel better and easier. At a minimum, they’re building along the right lines. And their new ‘Home Away From Home’ brings luxury travel benefits like Amex’s Fine Hotels and Resorts to their members without requiring an expensive credit card.
Sapphire Reserve New $795 Overhaul: 100K Points & $500 Travel Credit Offer, Up To 8× Earn—The Definitive Verdict On Value
Jul
14
2025
The relaunched Chase Sapphire Reserve is now available. Those applying today get the new card value proposition right away. Here’s what I really think about the new card – as a standalone proposition, and about the changes for current Sapphire cardmembers. Should you get the card? Should you keep it?
Bilt Rewards Hits $10.75 Billion Valuation, Leaving Wells Fargo For 3 New Cardless Cards Coming In February
Jul
10
2025
Bilt Rewards confirmed their new valuation of over $10 billion – specifically $10.75 billion – based on a $250 million fundraising round meant to fuel expansion beyond apartment rent and into homeownership.
And they also shared big news: that they will be leaving Wells Fargo for Cardless.
Bilt Rewards Just Hit $10 Billion By Solving Loyalty’s Biggest Problem—Here’s What Every Skeptic Missed
Jul
03
2025
Skeptics of the program have little reason not to participate. If you think they’re providing too much value to be sustainable, that would seem to be an even stronger reason to go all-in with the program (to benefit from the excess value they’re delivering).
1.83 Million Amex Points Gone In Seconds—Tariffs Force CEO To Torch Hard-Won Rewards
Jul
02
2025
Here’s a CEO who spent 1.83 million American Express Membership Rewards points to cover a surprise tariff bill at the guitar pedal manufactuing company he runs in Oklahoma Cty.
