How many times do you do the mistake of throwing a credit card into the drawer or cutting it up if you are not using it? Well until you cancel the credit card with your card provider, the credit card remains live and it can be used by anybody to pile up...
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MIT researchers have come up with the brilliant usage of radio tags that can be used to reduce card thefts, radio tags will be working as per the signals of your fingers and you do not have to use your signature to make payments. The trial of this new...
Credit Cards are a luxury for those who can afford it so there is no point in bragging about the number of cards you have got in your pocket, which you have stuffed because they have a certain interest free period and low interest rates. But let me tell...
MSN gives 22 ways you can save your cards from theft and it includes protecting card online, offline, on paper, credit statements, monitoring mails and how to handle when your are a victim. The categories cover the danger and it includes guarding the...
Amazed? Yes even the UK knows how to save, except for the fact that it seldom uses the savings strategies it has devised on its own. Anne Young, savings expert from Scottish Widows says: Our research shows that people do have some very good tips on good...
The next time you go for a credit card or get into an issue with a credit card company make it a point to buy the new E-book "Balance Transfer Magic" by Lawrence D.Goldberg, published by No Free Lunch Distributors. This book provides practical...
If you are in Tokyo and you are a patient who waits for a longer time to pay-off the outpatient bills then your wait is over. Credit firm Life Co. in collaboration with Tokyo University Hospital will help you to pay your outpatient bills easily with the...
A recent survey shows that 34 percent of the Britons plan to pay for their holidays through their credit cards and most of them are still clearing the debt on Christmas gifts. The report also shows the result in form of bankruptcy, which has risen to...
Scott Peelen's letter goes in response to my previous post on hike in the minimum payment on the outstanding credit card balance. Scott advices all the credit card holders to go through the fine print of their credit card before paying any minimum fe...
Well it is so easy to push off unexpected bills on a hope to be saved by a balance transfer to a zero percent APR cards. But you know well that it is like ending up with another credit card debt. I am not saying that you should not transfer to a lower...
A very good news for the guys who are deep in credit card debt is that there has been a hike on the minimum credit card payment from 2 percent to 4 percent. As per reports in ABC7Chicago.com: The once standard 2% minimum payment is increasing to 4% of...
ATM frauds are on a high and believe me it is very easy to be cautious rather than bang your heads after your money has been swiped off. Visa International's head of fraud management for sub-Saharan Africa, Neil Hawkey, gives you four areas where you...
Harvey Zimmermann of NT's accounting faculty, college advises the students on being judicious with the use of credit card in order to avoid a rolling debt. As per Harvey Zimmermann: The important thing is to treat it carefully. You don't want to be...
A report in Chicago Tribune reveals an IRS decision to facilitate the payment of a business tax through credit card. Apart from that IRS considers this mode of tax payment via credit card as a business expense. The cards that can be used to make tax...
Jean Chatzky editor-at-large at Money magazine gives an excellent idea of curing you of your credit card hangover. The solution is to make biweekly payments and to reduce the bulk of monthly payment. Jean gives the average reduction of the credit card...
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