Credit Card Blog

Over the last year, an estimated 5 million folk in Britain have managed to pay off credit card debts by dipping into their savings and cutting back on spending. A cross-section survey by ING Direct indicates that 1 in 10 credit card users in Britain have managed to pay off their whole outstanding balance during [...]

Eager sports fans could be paying off their debts for up to 20 years if they bought their London 2012 Olympic tickets on their credit cards. uSwitch, the online comparison site, has forecast that credit card owners who purchased the average spend of £1,250 for Olympic seats could wind up paying well over double that [...]

There has been some debate over the last month or so as to whether credit card providers are pulling a fast one with their zero per cent interest rate deals on transfers. Many credit card providers offer zero per cent if you are willing to switch from one credit card company to their own deal. [...]

The Daily Telegraph has given details of credit card spending by civil servants – and they have certainly not held back in some cases. The taxpayer has picked up the tab for council staff credit card spending on things like meals at popular restaurant The Wolseley where celebrities are often seen to hang out. The [...]

New statistics reveal that the interest rates on general credit cards are now at a 13 year high, so it’s more important than ever before to make sure you are comparing like with like if you are interested in taking out a student credit card. Since the beginning of the 2011, many credit card providers [...]

People who have taken out student credit cards or general credit cards who deal with PlayStation have been advised to cancel their credit cards. Around 3 million PlayStation online users in the UK could be at risk after the gaming company was subjected to a hacking attack between the 17th and 19th April. Up to [...]

Barclaycard has launched a long term 0% balance transfer credit card into the UK market. The term of the interest free period on credit card balance transfers is a whopping 18 months, making it the longest interest free credit card for balance transfers. As you would expect though, not everything about the new Barclaycard credit [...]

Can it really be five years that we’ve all been using chip and pin on our debit and credit cards? Well, it is! It was Valentine’s Day back in 2006 that debit and credit cards officially became chip and pin enabled in the United Kingdom and saved us from scribbling out our signature every time [...]

Credit cards from American Express and M&S Money have performed well in a recent survey carried out by uSwitch.com. Between the two credit card providers, they picked up top place in 8 out of the 11 categories surveyed beating off competition from many of the big name high street banks. American Express credit cards are [...]

Remember that this credit card blog brought you the news back in November that MBNA would be moving all of its customers over to contactless credit cards by the end of 2011? Well, the credit card company have now started to issue all of its 6 million UK credit card holders with the new technology [...]