Credit Card Blog

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 [...]

As is traditional at this time of year, the credit card providers are trying to dream up clever ways to persuade new customers to apply for credit cards. They also try to provide incentives for credit card users to switch from a rival provider to their own credit card account. Just one example of the [...]

Over half of the people in Britain are set to put Christmas on their credit cards this year according to the Consumer Intelligence website. A quarter of the people surveyed said they were lucky enough to be able to use their savings to pay for Christmas 2010 – but 3 per cent stated that they [...]

Sainsbury’s Finance have produced research showing that just over a fifth of Britain’s monthly expenditure (not including mortgage or rent) is paid for by credit card. The split between men and women was pretty much equal with men just edging the amount that was funded by plastic. Blokes put 22.6 per cent of spending on [...]

Which?, the magazine that compares products for consumers, has revealed its pick of the best (and worst) credit cards with rewards in the run up to Christmas. On the high street, the credit cards with rewards making the list for the right reasons were cards from BHS, The House of Fraser, Debenhams, Harvey Nichols, John [...]

UK credit card providers are starting to produce deals which might incentivise credit card users to put Christmas on plastic this year. With Christmas just 55 days away, credit card providers are tripping over each other to come up with the best and cheapest credit cards to entice the British consumer to shop with their [...]

Sainsbury’s have just launched a new Gold credit card onto the credit card market which it claims is ideal for use both in the UK and overseas. The Sainsbury’s Gold Credit Card has a monthly fee of £5 and a minimum credit limit of £1,500 so it’s not going to appeal to everyone. So, what [...]

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 [...]