Credit Card Blog

The Bank of England has cut interest rates to 3% – but credit card companies are unlikely to follow the lead and cut their interest rates. There has always been a massive discrepancy between the Bank of England base rate and the rate credit card providers charge, but now, accoring to Moneyfacts, consumers are paying [...]

An american based company, the CFI group, have come up with a National Customer Satisfaction Index for credit card providers. They’ve come up with some interesting results, which anyone who is looking for a credit card, should heed. Customer satisfaction was rated on a 0-100 point scale – with the main 5 high street credit [...]

When you’re a student, life is for living, money is for spending and worrying about your potential career is for the birds, right? Wrong. The choices you make now will shape your working life for years to come – and that includes your financial decisions as well as your educational ones. Even if you haven’t [...]

We carried out a survey about credit card usage amongst students a few weeks ago – and we’ll be analysing and announcing the results officially, but there were a couple of things which really stood out. Firstly – only half of those who said they had a credit card, said that they had any kind [...]

According to Push, average graduate debt stands at more than £17,500 * – up 9.6 per cent from 2007 – so now it’s more crucial than ever to manage your money wisely to ensure you don’t leave education with a big debt! Although budgeting yourself doesn’t sound that much fun, it need not mean that [...]