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23 November 2006
Credit card customers who persistently pay off their debts late will be punished with higher interest rates according to financial research company Defaqto.
22 November 2006
British consumers' love of all things plastic has made them an easy target for fraudsters according to credit reference agency Equifax.
21 November 2006
With Christmas just around the corner, many consumers will be looking for the best way to finance their Christmas shopping; particularly with analysts predicting that the average amount spent per head on gifts will be £310 this year.
20 November 2006
Credit card fraud has a new way of attacking the public, as more and more consumers are suffering from the latest trend: Credit card cloning.
17 November 2006
A survey conducted by Harris Interactive has revealed that over 65% of Britons "feel comfortable" using chip and Pin.
16 November 2006
HSBC is hoping to attract more customers by extending the interest free period for purchases and balance transfers on its credit card. Now the bank is offering 0% interest on purchases for six months and 0% interest on balance transfers until January 2008.
15 November 2006
PricewaterhouseCooper's prediction that providers could apply an annual credit card fee to recover lost revenue needs to be put into perspective according to the price comparison and switching website uSwitch.
14 November 2006
Following yesterday's findings from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), uSwitch, the price comparison and switching website, has commented on the possibility of banks bringing back an annual fee.
13 November 2006
The UK payments association Apacs has claimed that Britons will spend £32 million on their credit cards to purchase all their Christmas shopping.
10 November 2006
Technology company 3M has announced its vision for the future of credit cards, a card that is completely transparent.
09 November 2006
The Bank of England's monetary policy committee (MPC) is meeting today to decide whether or not to raise the interest rate.
08 November 2006
American credit card company Capital One has been severely reprimanded by the Banking Code Standards Board (BCSB) for a 'serious' breach of the British banking code, but the firm has only received a verbal warning.
07 November 2006
The latest statistics from Alliance & Leicester have suggested that credit card spending has started to fall and is now at the lowest point it has been since December 2004.
06 November 2006
Britons are planning to spend 35% more on their credit cards this Christmas with the majority of it being spent on the home and on cars. The latest figures from Morgan & Stanley Credit Index also revealed that £339 would be spent on groceries and that £251 would be spent on holidays and travelling between October and December this year.
03 November 2006
Credit company Mastercard has cashed in on the new trend for prepaid cards by launching its Prepaid MasterCard Gift Card and the Prepaid MasterCard Travel Card.
02 November 2006
Barclaycard Platinum now has a new lower typical Annual Percentage Rate (APR) of 14.9%. This marks a drop of 3% on the previous rate of 17.9%.
01 November 2006
Barclays, one of the UK's biggest banks, is warning its customers to be wary of so-called e-scams which ask for the consumer's credit card details in order to steal money from them.
31 October 2006
National money charity, Credit Action, has called for greater financial education for consumers. The comments were issued after The Debt Counsellors announced that credit card debt is a factor in 91% of all cases of serious debt.
30 October 2006
The latest thing Brits are bingeing on is debt, with women in particular succumbing to taking out credit cards and splurging on them without assessing whether or not they can pay it off.
28 October 2006
Consumers are being warned that the launch of BT's new credit card is not as good a money saving offer as first thought.
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