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Daily Mail14 October 2008 More than 1m homeowners have resorted to taking out cash on their credit cards to pay their mortgage and essential bills, research suggests today. Piling up: More than 1m are resorting to paying bills by credit WANT TO KNOW MORE? Guide: Top credit card mistakes OTHER STORIES Mortgage lenders still won't bring rates down Finally some good news on my mortgage Five ways to target cheaper property Buy-to-let new-build flats see biggest fall ...

This is Money 9 October 2008 I want to transfer my £7,000 credit card debt to one offering a 0% balance transfer so I can get it paid off more quickly. Although my credit rating is coming up as good, I keep being refused. Refused: Credit not given despite a good rating WANT TO KNOW MORE? When will credit crunch woe end? Credit crunch: What it means for you How the credit crunch will bite next I am a single parent earning around £15,500 a year. I hav ...

PARIS, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Gemalto NV: CEO SAYS BANK CRISIS COULD BOOST BANK CARD BUSINESS IN AN INTERVIEW WITH REUTERS, GEMALTO CHIEF EXECUTIVE OLIVIER PIOU SAID THE CONSOLIDATION OF BANKS, TRIGGERED BY THE CRISIS, COULD CREATE SALES GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES AS BANK CARDS WOULD NEED TO BE REBRANDED AFTER A MERGER. ((paris.equities@news.reuters.com, +33 1 4949 5452)) tf.TFN-Europe_newsdesk@thomsonre ...

James Coney, Money Mail8 October 2008 Guide | Deals | Calculate Millions of credit card customers face changes to their monthly repayments that could saddle them with a lifetime of debt. Debt for life: Changes to credit card repayment rules could land many with a lifetime's worth of debt WANT TO KNOW MORE? Card fraud worse since chip and pin OTHER STORIES High Street loan with 37% interest IF pulls credit card as rates keep rising Fees are new credit card battleg ...

This is Money | Last updated:6 October 2008, 12:48pm Reader comments (76) | Vote | Calculate Interest rates have a direct impact on everyone's finances, whether it's their mortgage payments, credit card bills or savings account. Below you'll find expert views on where rates are headed, followed by the latest news, analysis and advice on the site. We also reveal how mortgage rates (and the key Libor rate) move vs interest rates. >> Get rates decisions emailed to you: Newsfla ...

26 September 2008 Chat | Vote | Guide | Calculate Barclaycard has been handed down a maximum fine of £50,000 today by the telecoms watchdog for making 'nuisance' silent calls to its customers. Bad boy: Barclaycard's actions were criticised as the worse case in the industry of communications misuse WANT TO KNOW MORE? Goldfish cards get Barclaycard revamp Barclaycard gaffe sent to thousands Listen in on our call centre ring around POLL: Do you feel like you're being ...

LONDON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Regulators have slapped the maximum possible fine on British credit card operator Barclaycard for bothering customers with telephone calls even when it does not have enough staff to deal with them. Communications Regulator Ofcom said it had fined the unit of British bank Barclays 50,000 pounds ($91,910) and would have liked to impose a bigger penalty. "Taken as a ...

LONDON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - BARCLAYCARD: OFCOM FINES BARCLAYCARD THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT POSSIBLE (50,000 POUNDS) FOR BREACHING ITS RULES ON SILENT AND ABANDONED CALLS MOST SILENT CALLS ARE NOT GENERATED WITH MALICIOUS INTENT BUT OCCUR WHEN CALL CENTRES USING AUTOMATED CALLING SYSTEMS GENERATE MORE CALLS THAN THEIR AVAILABLE AGENTS CAN DEAL WITH. WHEN THE PERSON CALLED ANSWERS THE TELEPHONE, THERE  ...

Justin Harper, Daily Mail25 September 2008 Intelligent Finance (IF) has pulled its personal loans and credit cards to concentrate on its offset mortgage range. Withdrawn: HBOS subsidiary IF decided to withdraw cards before Lloyds merger announced WANT TO KNOW MORE? Credit cards 'will be extinct in five years' Deals: Get a better credit card OTHER STORIES Fees are new credit card battleground Credit cards 'will be extinct in five years' Goldfish cards get Barclaycar ...

BOSTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - General Electric Co does not expect to be able to sell its $30 billion U.S. private-label credit card business in the near future, the company's chief financial officer said on Thursday. "Clearly, we said in the second-quarter call that it was a challenging environment to find someone who wanted to take responsibility for over $30 billion of assets ... That ...