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Average credit card debt per borrower slipped to $4,965 in the second quarter from $4,971 in the same period last year, TransUnion said. Card debt rose from $4,875 in the first quarter. Meanwhile, the number of new credit card accounts opened by consumers increased in the first three months of the year. The data lags by a quarter, so the latest TransUnion figures cover the January-March period. They show that the number of new credit card accounts rose 5.6 percent from the same period in 2012. The share of cards issued to borrowers with less-than-perfect credit was essentially flat at 27.3 percent versus 27.4 percent a year earlier. That's still well below the roughly 45 percent share of cards going to non-prime borrowers before the recession, however. In the VantageScore credit rating scale, consumers with a score lower than 700 on a scale of 501-990 are considered non-prime borrowers.
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