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What Does Your Bank Know About You?
Getting a credit card is so easy it’s almost routine. We all know the works: you fill in a few blanks, send in a form, and find a new card in your mailbox…
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Top 10 Bank Screw-Ups In The Past Decade: How Consumers Pay For Them and How To Protect Yourself
Relatively heavy regulation of Australian banks’ lending practices paid off. As a country, they fared better than their US counterparts in the recent global economic crisis. But with prosperity comes idleness, at least…
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The Big Bank Switch: Scam or Savior?
One borrower doesn’t hold much sway over his bank, if at all. Americans learned this at the height of the real estate crunch, when over a million homeowners went into foreclosure (mortgagee auctions)…
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5 Ways Banks Rip-Off Travellers – And How You Can Fight Back
“Bon Voyage” Is a Wonderful Phrase Just about everyone likes to travel and travel abroad can be especially exciting. And just about every traveller knows that it’s important to have at least one…
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Gift Cards? Just Don’t Do It.
Gift Cards, Is It Really a Good Choice? Gift cards are like oysters—you either love them or hate them. I know people who think they’re the best invention since shopping baskets, and people…
Credit Card Fraud: How To Protect Yourself
Common Sense Is the First Line of Defence Credit card fraud is an ever-increasing evil in today’s plastic world. The Internet has made it near falling-off-a-log easy for fraudsters to trick with credit…
What Does Your Bank Know About You?
Getting a credit card is so easy it’s almost routine. We all know the works: you fill in a few blanks, send in a form, and find a new card in your mailbox…
