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It's difficult to see much effect in the marketplace at the moment, at least not in the US. Claims are rife that banks are hoarding cash, even the cash that Treasury is handing out. There'll be some s...
UK women may have triumphed in the recent Olympic Games but it looks like the women of the UK aren’t so keen on cycling. Research shows that over half of women will not cycle to work because they’re w...
Actually, CRAs should be made to contact - independently - the subject whenever there is a change to their status (for example, a credit check is requested by a lender) and receive independent confirm...
Over the last couple of days, I've had occasion to phone a couple of companies that use IVRs, and it has reminded me just how awful the experience is. In both cases, I had to go through 4 or 5 levels ...
Reading the post from Brandon McGee, I was amazed that a bank is giving away quite good level new mobile phones to use their mobile banking. Sure, you have to open an account and sign for 2 years. htt...
It isn't hard to see why customers prefer to do their banking and bill-paying using a PC, rather than a mobile. Well it is hard to see, and that's the problem. Those tiny little mobile screens aren't ...
A recent article in the New York Times has provoked some heated discussion as to the level of culpability banks and credit reference agencies share for the credit crash after it was revealed that they...
John Donne’s famous saying, ‘no man is an island, entire of itself’, is as true today as it was when he wrote it 400 years ago. And it is particularly relevant at a time of economic downturn, when th...
The fraud results released by APACS are generally as expected in the industry, with steady increases in card-not-present (CNP) and counterfeit card fraud, however there are a few numbers that raise qu...
Interesting little article in the Press the other day which said that, because some card issuers had reduced their ‘interest free periods’, customers who habitually paid interest would be paying £3 mi...
With the growth of a new finance method or channel timeless fraud methods will take on new forms, and people will continue to incorrectly declare that the problem is limited to the new channel. Phishi...
I'm just wondering what will happen to my bank statement when contactless takes off - assuming I use it. When I think about the large number of cash payments (30p here, 60-odd p there, a couple of qu...