Category: Credit Cards
Sun sets on solar scheme
Householders fuming as the ‘greenest-ever’ government kills off plans to install environmentally friendly energy and threatens a budding industry Householders who are in the process of having solar panels put on their roof have six weeks to complete the job or face seeing the predicted income they generate slashed after the government said it was [...]
Computer Glitch Leaves Natwest Customers Unable To Access Their Accounts
A computer crash sparked anger and frustration for millions of bank customers yesterday. NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland’s online and telephone banking service failed, making it impossible for up to 15?million customers to access accounts. On Friday, HSBC also suffered a computer meltdown that put its cash machines out of action and blocked debit [...]
John Lewis gift lists in a twist
Britain’s best loved department store causes fury among its customers with a move to a centralised list John Lewis’s wedding gift service – Britain’s biggest – has spiralled into chaos after a new centralised system at the department store left newlyweds waiting months for their presents. Customers of the store renowned for its service standards [...]
Cyber Crime – Stolen Credit Card Details Can Be Bought Online
Stolen credit card details can be bought online for less than the price of a bag of chips, it has been revealed. There are more than 150 websites offering illegally obtained information, according to government research. Many of them offer for sale details belonging to between 20,000 and 100,000 people worldwide at any one time [...]
The O2 mobile that ran up a £1,000 bill all by itself
Reader shocked by massive bill for texts supposedly sent while she was holidaying in Spain A fault in Jenny Hacker’s mobile phone resulted in her getting a £1,000 bill from O2 after her handset sent more than 9,100 texts in a five-hour period – without her even touching it. Hacker, from Brighton, first heard of [...]
What You Need To Know About Reloadable Prepaid Card
It looks like a credit card and spends like a debit card. But a reloadable prepaid card is in a class by itself. Sometimes called “prepaid debit cards,” or (less correctly) “prepaid credit cards,” reloadable prepaid cards are an exploding market. Consumers loaded $40.85 billion onto the cards in 2010 up 43 percent from the [...]
I lost £21,000 on a Bulgarian property fund
Financial journalist Edmund Tirbutt, who has been burned by the Bulgarian property market, on why you should stick to FSA-regulated schemes It felt satisfying to certify myself as a “sophisticated investor” to take advantage of what appeared an opportunity of a lifetime back in October 2005. After writing up a talk about Bulgarian property for [...]
The Boon of Credit Cards
WHILE queuing in a bank to deposit a cheque, a lady came up to me enquiring whether I had a credit card. She obviously was a bank staff and quickly explained that the credit card offered had a two-ear annual fee waiver if I signed up immediately. She was quite pushy and expected answers as [...]
Borrowing Expert – Boris Johnson’s Constant Borrowing Reaches It’s Limit
Boris Johnson loves to paint himself as a financially responsible politician, freezing his share of the council tax while driving down costs to avoid the sort of financial “black hole” he accuses his predecessor of leaving behind. Coalition austerity measures have allowed Boris to come out against cuts to London’s budgets without the wider media [...]
Halifax Accused Of Encouraging Credit Binge – Triggers Deeper Debt Crisis
The Halifax was accused of irresponsibility last night for encouraging hard-up families to go on a credit binge. The bank, which is 41 per cent owned by the taxpayer, has sent letters to its customers this week urging them to take out cash on their cards. It promises that it will take only one quick [...]
