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Tuesday 23rd October 2007
'Think' before using store cards for Christmas spending In the run-up to Christmas, consumers should think twice before using store cards for their gift shopping, independent financial adviser AWD Chase de Vere has warned. Savings manager Susan Hannums...
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Thursday 18th October 2007
One million pay mortgage with credit card More than a million households have had to pay their mortgage or rent using a credit card in the last year alone, new research shows. According to housing charity Shelter, around six per cent of p... |
Tuesday 16th October 2007
Credit card switching set to stay popular Six-and-a-half million Brits are planning to switch credit card provider this year - an increase of almost five per cent on last year - according to new research from Abbey Credit Cards. With an... |
Wednesday 3rd October 2007
Court to rule on overseas credit card protection British banks and credit card providers are going to the House of Lords to try to overturn protection for consumers who spend abroad on their credit cards. Currently, under the Consumer Credit Ac... |
Friday 31st August 2007
RSB launches contactless card The Williams Formula 1 team made a scene at a McDonald's when they made the first public purchase with RBS's new contactless card at a drive-thru in Billingsgate. Contactless cards are a new innov... |
Wednesday 29th August 2007
Credit card providers find new ways to charge customers Credit card providers are finding new ways to charge customers, following a crackdown on penalty charges, a consumer group has warned. Which? found that credit cards now come with a range of new ... |
Friday 17th August 2007
Call for age limit rise for credit cards Debt management company, Debtmatters has called for the government to increase the age at which people can apply for credit cards from 18 to 21, in the face of rising consumer debt. Debtmatters h... |
Tuesday 7th August 2007
Rate tarts must be careful not to risk their credit rating So-called 'rate tarts' who constantly switch and take out new credit cards to make the most of introductory offers could be damaging their credit rating, according to credit referencing agency, Exp... |
Thursday 2nd August 2007
Mortgage exit fees scrapped Around eight million adults are in serious debt - an increase of 30 per cent in the past year. According to a quarterly survey by debt consultancy Thomas Charles, some 8.2 million people, 18 per c... |
Tuesday 31st July 2007
BRC defends store cards The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has said that it is down to customers themselves to decide whether store cards are an "appropriate choice". Provided the rate of interest on store car... |
Friday 20th July 2007
Don't make it easy for identity thieves Every day 93 per cent of the UK population, that's 46 million people, go out with enough information on them to allow somebody to steal their identity. This frightening statistic from Capital One ... |
Monday 9th July 2007
Londoners get new look Barclaycard Barclaycard has announced the launch of a new credit card, which doubles up as an Oyster travel card. Barclaycard OnePulse will be launched in London in September and employs and new contactless t... |
Tuesday 3rd July 2007
Plastic spending trebles in ten years Spending on plastic has more than trebled in the UK over the past decade, with £321 billion spent on cards in 2006, according to a new report from Apacs. The UK payment processing association... |
Monday 25th June 2007
Brits muddled over credit cards More than two-thirds of credit card holders do not know the order in which their repayments are processed, new research has revealed. According to Nationwide, 69 per cent of people were unable to... |
Wednesday 13th June 2007
Customers cheesed off with credit cards Even after the Office of Fair Trading capped credit charge charges at £12 nearly a year ago, a study by uSwitch has shown that one in every five customers is still dissatisfied with their cred... |
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Despite the fact that the worldwide economy is on a slippery slope it seems that less people filed for bankruptcy in the first quarter of 2008 compared to the same period last year. Figures... 
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