Credit Card Blog

After we posted yesterday about the Barclaycard Platinum credit card we noticed that there seems to be an increase in the number of credit cards offering double incentives to new customers. We mentioned in that last blogpost about how an added bonus of the Barclaycard Platinum credit card was that it also included a sweetener [...]

Barclaycard has extended the balance transfer period on their Barclaycard Platinum card to 16 months making it one of the lengthiest interest free periods in the credit card market. The offer is only available to new Barclaycard Platinum credit card customers and there is a handling charge of 2.9 per cent on the balance of [...]

New ‘Clear’ credit card customers of the Co-operative Bank could benefit from a reduced APR of 11.9% with a new special offer. To qualify applicants must already have, or be prepared to open, certain current accounts with the bank. The move marks a one per cent decrease from the company’s traditional standard interest of 12.9% [...]

Do you remember our recent blog post at the end of last month about the Post Office Credit Card waiving travel charges? Well, now the Post Office have released some figures on just how much cash Brits may be throwing away on foreign credit card transactions. According to the Post Office Credit Card sample survey [...]