Cards

Thousands of credit card customers face interest rate hikes, but you can reject them to escape the potentially crippling higher payments.

Barclaycard has apologised after many of its customers who took out a credit card offer that was supposed to net them £100 in February failed to pay out.

American Express has boosted the introductory cashback rate on its Platinum credit card to 5%, matching the current best buy, the Capital One World Mastercard.

Regulation for most financial products will be housed under one roof, the Government has proposed today.

The Government is to block firms from using "hidden" credit and debit card surcharges to ramp up the price of flights, concert tickets and other goods.

MBNA will issue many airline credit card customers with two forms of plastic to maximise their chances of collecting points to exchange for flights.

Halifax has launched what is believed to be the first ever 'rate for risk' 0% deal. While long term credit cards APRs normally vary with successful applicants' credit scores, until now 0% deals were fixed for all. It's feared if more firms go this way, it could set a worrying precedent for borrowers.

Former Egg credit card customers have reported major problems after the switchover to Barclaycard.

Some 400,000 Nationwide customers are in the process of receiving an upgraded credit card that is free to use overseas and comes with cashback.

A combination of complex charges and poor or misleading information means consumers are paying too much when buying foreign money or using cards overseas, a lobby group says.