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Was there a specific year that the big banks (also not counting and excluding CUs here) stopped issuing fixed-rate credit card offers, en masse? I am aware that even today the banks may still issue a relatively rare fixed-rate offer on an individual basis to certain people with excellent/super-prime credit scores and/or high net worth, but in my question, I am talking about the last known year that the banks stopped sending widespread fixed-rate card offers to large groups of people, either by mail or online?
I would imagine that a significant number of fixed-rate offers may have obviously stopped and dried up by 2008-2009 and thereafter, due to the preparations for and enactment of CARD Act alone, but as a data point of sorts, I know that I personally received a bank-based, fixed-rate mail offer app as late as the latter part of 2007, which I accepted and was approved for. Would this seem to indicate that mass-distribution fixed rate card offers from the banks may have stopped sometime around the timeframe of 2007-2008? Or possibly later? Just curious...
My Capital One card I got in 2004 is fixed rate. Haven't seen many since then.
Bumping the thread, just in case there was possibly anyone else who might want to chime in and discuss more?
Capital One changed most accounts to variable in late 2007.