BBVA Compass offers an NBA credit card that earns 5% cash back on all purchases during the all star weekend and two weeks NBA Finals. When they added a $5,000 spending cap per event in April of last year they removed online applications from their website and made it so you needed to apply for it through http://ecredable.com/. At some stage that option was removed and it became only available via in branch application.
myFICO user water88 went into a BBVA branch recently and it’s now no longer available for an in branch application either. I suspect BBVA has lost a lot of money on this card due to the generous 5% back promotions (although spending in any volume was difficult due to constant freezes and shut downs during the 5% period), the fact they are no longer offering the card isn’t a good sign for future events. At minimum I’d expect the 5% events this year to run as scheduled, but going into 2018 that’s more of an unknown if they are no longer offering the card.
It’s also possible that NBA wants to partner with another bank, but this is a wait and see sort of thing.
