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Michael Clarke, This is Money2 September 2006 CREDIT CARD customers are moving away from cards that offer 0% interest on balance transfers in favour of those that offer cashback or reward points. GET YOUR REWARD: Cards are offering perks to incentivise customers to spend WANT TO KNOW MORE? DEAL FINDER: Choose the right credit card BEST BUYS: Cash back cards GUIDES: Choosing a credit card OTHER STORIES NatWest scraps card cheques The UK's worst debt towns New on the ...

By Jennifer Hill LONDON (Reuters) - A UK banking giant is set to scrap expensive credit card cheques, leading to calls for other lenders to follow suit. The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Europe's second largest bank and the world's fifth biggest, will withdraw credit card cheques at the end of September. It is the first to do so since the Department of Trade and Industry opened a consultation o ...

Michael Clarke, This is Money1 September 2006 NATWEST bank has stopped issuing high-interest credit card cheques to its customers ahead of the Government's findings into the controversial products. WRITE OFF: Credit card cheques are frequently criticised for luring customers into expensive debt WANT TO KNOW MORE? REPORT: Hidden cost of card cheques BLOG: Don't cheque this out YOUR VIEWS: Credit card cheques OTHER STORIES Is your car finance taking you for a ride? Th ...

Thu 31st Aug 2006 To Nationwide, charity is no joke. The credit company has upped the amount it will donate to Comic Relief on first use of its Comic Relief credit card. From September 1st, for every Nationwide Comic Relief credit card opened and in use, Nationwide will donate £6 to charity. The amount is an increase of 2.6 per cent on previous years' donations. Existing car ...

Hackers have obtained the credit card details of almost 19,000 online shoppers from telecoms giant AT&T. The US company said it had notified shoppers at its online store of the security breach, which affected people buying high-speed DSL internet items. Security was breached at the weekend, the company said, and online stores were quickly shut down in response. AT&T said it would reimburse customers for any fraudulent transactions and pay for any necessary credit services. There were no indi ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - AT&T Inc. (T.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday that computer hackers illegally accessed credit card data and other personal information from several thousand customers who bought DSL equipment from AT&T's online store. The phone company said it is notifying "fewer than 19,000" customers whose data was accessed over the past weekend. The company said it noticed the hacking "within hours," immediately shut down the online store, notified credit car ...