Bilt’s first Rent Day of 2025 has an elite status offer with Accor hotels as its headline affair. Accor has 55 brands, with a huge footprint in Europe and they’re large in Asia as well. Some of their most recognizable are Fairmont, Orient Express, Raffles, Novotel and Sofitel.
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Earn 100,000 Points Paying Your Mortgage With Mesa’s No Annual Fee Card – Plus $700 In Statement Credits
Mesa offers a points-earning ‘mortgage marketplace’ and a no annual fee credit card that earns points for paying your mortgage (up to 100,000 points per year). The card has been in limited release with a wait list, but they say it will be opening up broadly during January.
CFPB’s Warning Shot Says Airline Miles Devaluations Are Now Illegal Bait-and-Switch—Just Empty Words From Regulators?
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has launched a broadside against credit card rewards programs. I spoke with CFPB’s Director, Rohit Chopra about the effort.
The agency warns that several aspects of credit card rewards programs – like devaluations – may violate the law, that retail (store) cards are often poor value, and that consumers can be misled by tools that purport to suggest the best product for them.
Exclusive: Alaska Airlines’ New Premium Card Global Companion Award And Fee Waiver Details Revealed
Alaska Airlines announced this week that the move to a single loyalty program with Hawaiian Airlines will come this summer, and that they’ll also launch a premium credit card at that time.
Brett Catlin, Alaska’s Vice President of Loyalty, Alliances and Sales, shared some additional details about the card’s companion award certificate with me.
Unlock 56,000 Miles For Free with Capital One’s YieldStreet Offer—No Investment, Just These Simple Steps
Capital One is offering up to 56,000 miles for signing up with Yieldstreet via Capital One Offers. The real value here is you need to open an account, but it doesn’t look like you need to fund the account or invest.
Barclays Cards To Disappear: How Citi’s New Exclusive Deal With American Airlines Will Reshape Your Miles Strategy
American Airlines and Citibank have entered into an agreement to extend their cobrand credit card agreement by 10 years. This deal pushes out Barclays, and makes Citi the sole issuer of American Airlines credit cards in the U.S. starting in 2026.
We will start to see points transfers from Citibank to American AAdvantage and likely more.
Big Changes For Bilt Rewards In 2025: Earn Points On Mortgages, New Credit Card Strategy, And Expanded Benefits
This morning Bilt is out with a new message to program members that reveals a real pivot in strategy. The message is ‘we’re not just a credit card’.
In this message they lay out some of their vision for 2025, walk through their economics, and drop what I view as something of a bombshell.
Bilt Earn Triple Points On 1x Spend, Redeem With Up To 100% Bonus At Amazon
Bilt’s monthly Rent Day is back and they have both offers on their traditional timeline (December 1) as well as leading up to it.
Forget Rent Points—Bilt’s New Program Lets You Earn 250,000+ Points Buying A Home
Bilt Rewards has a new program that rewards you with 1 point per $2 spent on the purchase price of a home, for working with a real estate agent they refer you to.
This is all wrapped with first-time homebuying tools like mortgage, down payment, property tax and insurance cost calculators that help educate members. Their tool integrates the affordability calculators with real estate search.
Today’s Senate Hearing Could Wipe Out Credit Card Rewards—And Threaten Economic Stability For Everyone
Card, and interchange, are so woven into the fabric of the economy that it’s difficult to even predict the full extent of damage from redistributing money here not just from payment networks but also from consumers to retailers. That’s why Senator Durbin’s attempt to cap credit card swipe fees isn’t just bad policy, it’s literally insane.