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Credit Card Articles

Credit Card Tips

• Compare Credit Card Offers UK
  There are currently hundreds of UK credit cards to choose from, the most traditional being Visa and Mastercard options to debit cards, secured cards, brand name cards, store cards and many more.
• How To Choose The Right Credit Card For You
  Today credit cards are an essential part of our lives. But, there just seems to be so many companies willing to give us a credit card. So, how can you choose the right credit card for you?
• Understanding Business Credit Cards
  Do you own your own business? If so, you’ll likely need a business credit card and often you will need more than one. There are so many advantages to having business credit cards working for you and with today’s competitive market.
• Introducing Your New Credit Card
  There are hundreds of credit cards to choose from so selecting your first credit card can be a minefield. Many people opt for credit cards with low introductory rates to allow them to manage their finances effectively.

General Credit Card Articles

• Will 0% Balance Transfers Be a Thing of the Past
  With many people becoming ‘credit card rate tarts’, people who switch from one credit card to another regularly to avoid paying introductory fees and interest, companies are ditching their offers of 0% balance transfers to overcome major levels of profit loss
• Credit Card Spending Affected by Stagnant UK House Prices
  Some experts claim that UK credit card spending is slowing down and may decline further due to reports in May from HBOS plc that house prices fell by 0.6% and predict the prices of our homes would fall an average of 2% this year. Nationwide Building Society, however, have reported a rise in house prices by 0.3%.
• UK Home Credit Market
  Many of you may have heard of the U.K home credit market, some will have used this form of borrowing, some probably wouldn’t touch it with the proverbial barge pole.
• Use Your UK Credit Card Or You May Well ‘Lose’ It!
  With each of us in the UK having on average 3 credit cards, it may well be tempting at some point to make your financial affairs easier by just keeping one of the credit cards aside for ‘emergency use’ only.

Credit Card Debt

• Britain’s Favorite Form Of Debt – The UK Credit Card
  The growth of UK credit card use in the past 10 years has been nothing short of exceptional. Today, credit card debt in the UK can rightly claim the mantel of being the “Britain’s favorite for of debt”. If you are in any doubt about this, consider the following information.

Credit Card Charges

• Payment protection
  The new method adopted by the credit cards companies to secure their returns and your interest is known as payment protection. Payment Protection is one of the forms of insurance covering your repayments when your income is reduced due to unemployment or illness.

Credit Cards Types

• Credit Cards Types
  As the world is going global the desires and wishes of the people are increasing day by day. Now everyone wants basic facilities and things to live a luxurious life. We all want to spend a bit extra than may be what we can afford at the moment.
• Best Cards For Rewards And Cash Back
  Reward credit cards are special credit cards that earn the cardholder rewards in form of cash backs, free air miles or reward points redeemable against cash or discounts on purchases.
• What You Should Know About Store Credit Cards
  It is likely that you have been in a store shopping when you were offered a store credit card. These offers are usually made by the cashier as you pay for your merchandise, and they may offer you a discount on your purchases if you choose to sign up. While the discount may sound like a good idea, there are some things you should know about store credit cards.

Credit Card Fraud Articles

• Call Fraud
  There’s been a lot of talk recently about the problem of credit card and identity fraud with several major companies taking steps to combat the problem and protect their customers
• Credit Card Fraud Prevention
  In order to prevent becoming a victim of card theft, it does help to keep your cards safe and out of sight of prying eyes. This is good advice as a great deal of UK credit card fraud arises..
• Chip-and-Pin impacts on UK credit card fraud
  The Association for Payment Clearing Services, today published figures showing fraudulent use of credit and debit cards in the UK rose by 20 per cent to £504.8m in 2004.
• Credit Card Identity Theft
  I have recently discovered that a quarter of all people in the UK are or know of someone who has been a victim of identity theft. Identity crime is the UK fastest growing crime.
• Credit Card Fraud
  Credit card fraud is something which the media highlights every so often with criminals seemingly developing new schemes or methods in order to defraud credit card holders.
• Chip and PIN Security For Your Credit Card
  Credit cards just keep getting smarter. In an effort to reduce credit card fraud, the latest family of credit card offerings are implanted with 'smart chips' that interact with special terminals to identify you and secure your purchases.
• Phishing – Never Give Your Credit Card Details
  If you are fed up with all the spam that you receive through your computer, then some good news has been brought to us on that front and it is good to see that Microsoft are coming down hard, on the mister big’s that are behind it.

Adverse Credit Articles

• Personal debt puts Britons under pressure
  Due to credit card, loan and overdraft debts, it’s estimated that forty per cent of Britons aged 26-40 could not survive for more than one month if they lost their job, according to a new study by credit reference agency Equifax.
• Adverse Credit Increase
  Even though all we seem to get through our letterboxes, are leaflets and letters offering us credit cards and loans, getting credit has never seemed so easy. But the fact of the matter is that the amount of people who are being refused when applying for credit has been rising over the last few years.
• Consolidate your credit card debts
  With the popularity of plastic money in the present age, credit cards are gaining immense importance. With the growing increase in usage of such cards the credit rates are also reaching the horizon. Debts are thus becoming a common happening in our daily lives

New Credit Cards / Announcements

• Privacy Guard from Royal Bank of Scotland
  What would you give for a bank that wants to help you get back your credit identity, which was lost after falling victim of fraud, due to identity theft?
• M&Serative Clear Credit Card
  The Co-operative bank has recently come up with a survey that they found made for some very interesting reading, and has made them look at another way to entice new customers to their credit cards.
• Credit Cards for Charities
  Donating to charities is a worthwhile and good thing to do and it is something that most of us have done in the past and will hopefully do again in the future, but the overriding factor that probably most of us feels is that we would like to do a lot more for charity, but finding the time is always the main reason that holds us back from doing so.
• Barclaycard Combinations
  Barclaycard are gearing up for the pilot of an innovative new financial product, which could revolutionise the way some of us manage our credit cards and personal loans.

Credit Card History

• History of Credit Cards - Who thought up the idea, what were the circumstances around it? Read our article of the history of credit cards to find out!
• History of Credit Cards Part 2 - Concluding the history of credit cards

Details of credit card companies

• Virgin Credit Card - We explain in detail the benefits of this highly regarded credit card
• Mint Credit Card - One of the most recent credit cards to enter the Uk gets a review from Credit Card Store
• Halifax Credit Card - Does the excess amount of advertising really work? We look at the Halifax credit card in some detail.
• Egg Credit Card - Not just an odd name for a credit card, we look at the history of the famous Egg credit card
• Tesco Credit Card - not satisfied with the retail industry these giants have moved into the financial market with various products including the Tesco credit card
• Morgan Stanley Credit Card - The American financial company has been a household name across the water for amny years but they are making significant progress in the UK market
• MBNA Credit Card - The American company came to the UK around 5 years ago and they now claim that 1/3 of all the credit cards in the world are MBNA cards
• Marbles Credit Card - marbles offer a variety of different financial products but in this article we focus on the marbles credit card
• Goldfish Credit Card - An odd credit card to launch in the year 1996 but it has certainly made an impact in the UK market
• Collectable Credit Cards - People that collect credit cards? There are some people out there whose chosen collectables are credit cards
• Charity Credit Cards - Charity credit cards are a superb innovation for those who wish that their spending could go to help those less fortunate than themselves.
• Capital One Credit Card - Capital One started as an American company in nineteen ninety five a grew in popularity very quickly there.
• Cahoot Credit Card - The Cahoot credit card is another recent brand which has been launched via fairly heavy television advertising with a ‘quirky’ feel.
• Barclaycard - Popularised before many of today’s credit card brands Barclaycard continues to go from strength to strength.

Other Credit Card Articles

• Extending the lower rate
  When debt finally creeps up behind you and you seem to be running out of time, Scott Bilker tries to find a solution for one of readers
• Benefits of calculating a loan or credit card debt properly
  Here Scott will give you an interesting real life exaple of the advantages of being able to work out your monthly repayments on a loan before you sign up for the credit card agreement.
• Credit Cards should be withdrawn from paedophiles
  People who finance the sexual exploitation of children via the internet should have their credit cards withdrawn, according to a backbench Labour MP.
• Credit Cards can help reduce your car rental bill
  If you’re beginning to entertain thoughts of hitting the open road, maybe it’s time for you to plan a get away. Before you do, it’s in your best interest to think a little further ahead than just about when and where to go.
• Bad Credit
  What is this and what can you do to stop this happening to you? We explain where things may have gone wrong