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Credit card providers are set to hike their interest rates and introduce more annual fees as they battle to survive, an industry report claims today.
9 November 2009
Barclaycard has reduced some borrowers' minimum credit card payments to a fraction of their debt this month following a computer glitch.
6 November 2009
The number of complaints about banks and other financial firms has risen to over 1.5 million during the first half of 2009.
29 October 2009
The Government is attempting to cut up the credit card rule book, launching a raft of proposals aimed at reducing the £53.9 billion of debt we owe on plastic as a nation.
27 October 2009
Borrowers are missing out on the best deals and paying too much for credit due to cracks in the application process, MPs were told today.
27 October 2009
Consumers have been warned to be vigilant following a 250% jump in the number of people tricked into handing over their card details and pin to fraudsters.
22 October 2009
The ban on debt insurance sales in its current form cannot go ahead, a tribunal has ruled.
16 October 2009
Unemployment climbed by 88,000 over the three months to August to reach 2.47 million, official figures showed today.
14 October 2009
Consumers have been told by a claims firm they have little chance of getting debt wiped out by challenging a credit agreement.
14 October 2009
The word 'stoozing' could soon find itself in the dictionary.
13 October 2009
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