If there's one thing I learnt in CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) it's that we have to take something positive from every negative experience. Or w...
The main things you need to take care of, is to make things easy for your clients and customers. In doing so, you naturally make them like you and your business. Also, with add-ons like credit card reader apps, you also ensure that transactions are a matter of seconds irrespective of where you are.
Your credit report is all about you, not your address, not your family members, not even your pets, just you. If someone who lived at your address before didn't pay their bills this won't turn up on your credit file, it will turn up on theirs. So that's one less thing to worry about.
Are we in the double dip or have we come out the other side and are now going down for the third time? Am I supposed to be cutting back, giving some slack or just cutting corners on the luxury and only buying the necessary?
An attempt to clamp down on the cost of borrowing from pay day lenders has been defeated in the Commons. MPs voted by 266 to 225, majority 41, to r...
A major international crackdown on websites selling credit card details has seen several top websites taken offline by organised crime police. More...
Cyber crime is growing. In 2011, Trustwave, the cyber security firm, performed 42% more investigations into suspected data breaches than in 2010 - largely due to a jump in sophisticated hack attacks on companies' computer systems. That is why it is so important for businesses to be aware of the risks they face online and how they can protect themselves.
A record £400 million was repaid from personal borrowings in December as consumers continued to shrink their debts, the Bank of England has saidy. ...
An increasing number of businesses are struggling to pay their tax bills after new figures show a growing number are using credit cards to make their ...
In the Victoria branch of T.M. Sutton pawnbrokers, between the glass cabinets of designer watches and jewelry, is a life-sized bronze statue of Elvis ...
A furious war of words has broken out between the Taxpayer’s Alliance and the government over claims that members of the British Council have wasted...
Payment surcharges - extra fees added to the price of a purchase based on a consumers' choice of payment - have become increasingly widespread. The...
The government is to block firms from using "hidden" credit and debit card surcharges to ramp up the price of flights, concert tickets and other goods...
Low pay it is having a deeply damaging effect on the lives of children in Britain. These children, whose parents, according to UNICEF, 'often work long hours or work several jobs to makes ends meet', face a long list of disadvantages: greater risk of obesity, heart disease and mental health problems.
HSBC customers have had their cards refused and access to online and phone banking cut after a technical glitch at the bank. The bank did not retur...
When ordinary Britons woke-up yesterday morning to read the headlines that Cameron was instructing them to promptly pay off their credit card bills, the sound of chokes on cornflakes was heard throughout the land. "How dare that little Tory toff tell me off about my Visa bill?", they thought.
David Cameron was a little misleadingly reported this morning as advising British households to pay back credit card debt. In fact he said that they were doing so and implied that this was a good idea.
David Cameron has been forced to rewrite his Wednesday address to the Conservative Party conference after an early draft indicated that the prime mini...
Criminals are resorting to old fashioned scams to trick people out of their cash due to the success of hi-tech methods to tackle debit and credit card...
In his speech to the Conservative Party conference on Wednesday, Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to tell delegates that the current economic ...
LIVE Aid, the famine relief concerts of 1985, raised £150 million. The Republic of Ireland gave the most per capita donations, despite suffering a serious economic recession at the time.
The British are increasingly relying on credit cards for buying power as incomes fall in the wake of the financial crisis, draining savings and leadin...
