Credit card balance transfers are one of the financial world’s great empowering features, but they can only be done successfully if you follow the rules and don’t fall foul of them. Firstly you must consider the benefits, then the pitfalls. These two aspects are more or less permanent features of the credit card balance transfer [...]
Credit card debt has been an ongoing problem ever since the credit card was created in 1950. People were going into debt at an astounding rate. It wasn’t very long before the people were in so much debt that they couldn’t possibly pay it all back.
The federal government noticed that Americans [...]
In the UK the 8 largest credit card providers have been ordered to reduce their charges, for default and late payment, by between 40 and 50%. The current late payment charge by most major issuers is between £20 – £25 ($30 – $40 US) and the have been instructed to slash that down to £12 [...]
