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Cheap balance transfer credit cards are back in vogue but millions still don't know how to use one properly which has cost them hundreds of pounds a year.
4 June 2010
MBNA will end a long-standing credit card stealth charge in the autumn that penalises those who spend on a plastic after making a cheap balance transfer.
1 June 2010
MBNA will stop issuing credit card cheques from the end of this month.
18 March 2010
Virgin Money's credit card offering 0% interest on purchases and balance transfers for a year will fully launch on its website tomorrow.
17 March 2010
Complaints about financial firms to the independent Ombudsman Service were up by 18% during the second half of last year, after many banks and other providers wrongly rejected consumer gripes.
25 February 2010
A landmark legal victory could open the floodgates for millions of people to take credit card companies to court, it is claimed.
1 October 2009
The major credit card providers say they will show mercy to borrowers who make late payments because the postal strike has delayed their bill's arrival.
28 September 2009
We now have conclusive evidence banks and other financial firms reject complaints even when they know consumers are in the right.
15 September 2009
The shocking scale of consumer mistreatment is uncovered today as the lid is lifted on banks and other financial firms that brush off genuine complaints in the hope they will vanish.
15 September 2009
MBNA has shocked the credit card market by launching one of the cheapest debt-shifting deals seen in years.
3 September 2009
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