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Beating Identity Theft Fraudsters

By admin | June 23rd, 2009 | Featured

Fraudsters that steal your identity lurk in places where you would never expect to find them. These thieves can’t be seen and you only know that you have become an identity theft victim when you receive your banking statement or your credit card bill.


Avoid becoming a victim of identity theft

By admin | May 16th, 2009 | Featured

As many people already know identity theft is becoming a major problem and is already costing the UK close to £2 billion a year. Whilst consumers have become more aware of the dangers of certain actions that could increase the risk of identity theft, fraudsters have started using increasingly sophisticated technology in order to get [...]


Factors that can affect your ability to get credit

By admin | May 10th, 2009 | Featured

These days, in the current financial climate, getting credit can be very difficult for many people, and there are a number of common factors that can play a big part in whether or not you are accepted for the credit that you apply for.


Is a credit building credit card a good thing?

By admin | April 2nd, 2009 | Featured

Anyone that has previously had, or still has, bad credit will know that once your credit rating has plummeted it can be extremely difficult to get further credit.


Would you be more confident shopping online with a prepaid card?

By admin | March 24th, 2009 | Featured

For many people the thought of shopping online has become something of a daunting and nerve-racking one, not because they don’t know what they are doing online but because of the sophisticated means by which fraudsters have started to carry out credit and debit card fraud.


Which credit card will get you through the New Year financial hangover?

By admin | March 2nd, 2009 | Featured

With January now over many of us will have received our credit card bills from the Christmas and New Year periods, and whilst this will not prove a problem for the lucky ones that can afford to repay the balance in full on their cards for many others panic may be setting in.


The problems facing credit card rate tarts

By admin | February 4th, 2009 | Featured

Over the past few years the term rate tart has been banded about a lot, and the wide range of credit cards has come onto the market over recent years has resulted in borrowers being able to save a small fortune on their borrowing.


Credit card firms will be fairer with consumers

By admin | January 17th, 2009 | Featured

Over the past couple of years financial regulators and watchdogs in the UK have received high levels of complaints from consumers relating to credit cards, and over recent months concerns about how fairly credit card companies are treating consumers have been brought into the limelight.


The controversy over credit cards heightens

By admin | December 21st, 2008 | Featured

Over recent months there has been increasing controversy in relation to credit card providers in the UK, but over the past couple of months this has really heated up, with many accusing credit card companies of fleecing their customers. One of those making this accusation is no other than the Prime Minister himself, Gordon Brown, [...]


Could you benefit from using a credit card instead of a debit card?

By admin | December 12th, 2008 | Featured

There are millions of people that use credit cards to make purchases such as day to day purchases or special occasion purchases like Christmas shopping, but an even greater number of people tend to use debit cards to make these purchases. Whilst both credit and debit cards can prove convenient for making purchases some industry [...]


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