A Quick Guide to Balance Transfers
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A Quick Guide to Balance Transfers
By admin | January 23rd, 2008 | FeaturedIn the ever more competitive world of credit cards, balance transfers are the most effective means of which to lure new customers. This is, of course, good news for consumers as, in a bid to win your custom, some companies are offering up to an incredible 12 months interest free on balance transfers as [...]
Defining Credit Surfing
By admin | January 23rd, 2008 | FeaturedCredit surfing is now a very common practice in the United Kingdom, for one reason and one reason only – to save money. Here is some further information on credit surfing.
Credit Surfing Defined
Credit surfing is simply moving from one low rate deal on a credit card to another as soon as the first runs out. [...]
Cash Back Credit Cards
By admin | January 23rd, 2008 | FeaturedCash back credit cards appear to be a lucrative deal to many of us. They come with cash back rebate incentives or rebate schemes. A cash back credit card gives you back a percentage of money that you spend on your card.
Cash back credit cards generally require good credit rating for approval. The credit card [...]
Which Reward Credit Card Would You Choose?
By admin | January 23rd, 2008 | FeaturedDoes one reward credit card give you the same benefits as any other rewards card? Lloyds TSB have launched their Rewards American Express Credit Card, their first loyalty card, which offers customers one point for every pound they spend, customers can use their points at retailers such as Debenhams, Marks & Spencers, UCI Cinemas and [...]
How The Credit Score Process Works
By admin | January 23rd, 2008 | FeaturedAside for your credit reference rating, the biggest single influencing factor on your credit rating will be your credit score. Now, unlike the credit reference agency rating, the way in which your credit score process works is clouded in mystery – as credit card companies won’t divulge this information to the public for fear of [...]
Identity Theft – Some Precautions
By admin | January 23rd, 2008 | FeaturedLast year alone fraud cost the UK credit card business over £1billion – and it is estimated that identity theft accounted for approximately 10% of that sum!
To try and counter this huge loss, credit card companies have been coming up with ever more innovative and technologically sophisticated cards. Notwithstanding this action on the part of [...]
Credit Card Protection
By admin | January 23rd, 2008 | Credit Cardsome credit card companies will offer you a period of time where the goods that you have bought will be ‘protected’. This means that should you suffer theft of these goods , damage or even lose them the credit card company may replace them through the cover in your credit card’s insurance plan. It is [...]
Chip AND PIN
By admin | January 23rd, 2008 | FeaturedYou may have received literature through the door recently from your current credit card provider or be aware of television and radio adverts heralding the arrival of the Chip and PIN scheme, which is currently being rolled out across the country.
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Credit Card Fraud – The Ten Top Tips
By admin | January 23rd, 2008 | FeaturedAs more and more of us use ‘plastic’ rather than cash to pay for our goods and services, the opportunity for fraud has risen dramatically. Although not a new phenomenon, it has certainly risen in prevalence in recent times and it seems everyone knows someone who has been a victim or has been one themselves. [...]
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