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Pay Off Your Credit Card Debt

So you want to pay off your credit card debt? Good on you. You probably already realised that throwing away your bills into the trash bin didn’t help much. In fact, debt is like a cat who pounces on the mouse; it’s a slow dying process as interest rates drain you of your blood, your [...]

Get A Better Deal With Credit Card Finder UK

The best credit card deals are often right there in front of your nose, yet you just fail to see them. If you are an existing credit card consumer with a wish to find a better deal, then you can’t look past UK balance transfer cards. These cards are often worth their weight in gold [...]

How To Get A Credit Card With Bad Credit

How to get a credit card with bad credit is a question many consumers ask themselves each day. Quite frankly speaking, it is a struggle, albeit not impossible. You have to understand that your credit card lender (the institution giving you your credit card) wants to be certain (as much as one can be) that [...]

How To Get A Credit Card

If you have ever wondered “how to get a credit card’ then now is your chance to get the plastic fantastic into your hands after reading this article. The first priority you have is to establish a good credit history which of course is hard when you are young and just left school. On the [...]

Credit Card Debt Management

Credit card debt management should be second nature to anyone carrying a credit card. Not doing so is foolish and extremely risky. By applying for a credit card we effectively enter into a contractual agreement between the lending institution (often a bank) and ourselves. Since penalty rates on credit cards are usually very high it [...]

Check out our new Credit Card Balance Transfer Calculator

We’ve just created this fantastic new Credit Card Balance Transfer Calculator.
If you’re thinking about transferring your credit card balance to a card like the Virgin Credit Card or the Halifax All in One Credit Card, then you can use our handy little tool belo
If you want to find the best offers for Balance transfers, check [...]

Avoid Financial Advice from Barclaycard

If you’ve ever had the fortune to have Barclaycard offer you a ‘helping hand’, beware. Barclaycard has launched a financial advice line, targeted at customers who are reaching their credit limit, or who are not clearing their debts each month.
Customers will be sent a text or telephoned by the firm and invited to discuss [...]

Strict Budgeting the best way to pay off Credit Card Debt

In an amazing piece of insight, the Consumer Credit Counselling Service (CCCS), a financial advice charity, has said that the best way out of credit card debt is (wait for it) budgeting, and sticking to a budget.
Specifically they state that making “a strict and truthful budget” is the “first step” to getting out [...]

Credit Card Fraud Most Common in London

London, Thames Valley and West Mercia are the three places where credit card fraud is most prevalent,  according to fraud prevention service CIFAS.  Indeed, if you live in the south of England, your risks of ID theft are higher than our friends and family oop north.  The most common form of ID theft involved criminals [...]

Three hot tips to cut your credit card debt

Credit card firms aren’t always as honest and open as we’d like. The government is planning to crack down on some of the cheeky ways they try to extract money from us, by banning credit card cheques, unsolicited limit increases, obscene interest rates and the use of ‘negative payment hierarchies’.
Although these plans are [...]