The number of credit card complaints soared last year to become the second-biggest cause of financial product dissatisfaction, the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has said. The number of overall complaints to the financial watchdog increased by 25% last year, with more than 250,000 cases being dealt with. Complaints over payment protection insurance were top of [...]
More Customers Denied Refunds By Credit Card Companies
Shoppers attempting to claim money back from their credit card company, after receiving faulty goods, are increasingly being denied a refund by their card provider. The Financial Ombudsman Service, the independent watchdog for the finance industry, has said it handles as many as 100 complaints per week from customers who’ve been effectively ignored by their [...]
Europe faces Japan syndrome as credit demand implodes
Europe (minus Germany) looks more like post-bubble Japan each month. The long-feared credit crunch has mutated instead into a collapse in DEMAND for loans. Households and firms are comatose, or scared stiff, in a string of countries. Demand for housing loans fell 70pc in Portugal, 44pc in Italy, and 42pc in the Netherlands in the [...]
Fraudsters Capitalise On Credit Card Details Of The Deceased
The identities of millions of deceased Americans are being used to apply for credit cards by criminals in the US, a study has found. Analysis of more than 100 million credit card applications in the first three months of last year, by risk management firm ID Analytics, has revealed that credit card fraudsters are using [...]
Credit Card Criminals Target Hospitality Industry
The hospitality industry is being warned of a heightened danger of attack from cyber criminals, as a new type of malware targeted at hotels goes on sale on the black market. A shift in the focus of cybercriminals has been detected recently, as they target systems that store details of a higher number of credit [...]
Smartphone Payment To Replace Credit Cards By 2020
Smartphones will replace credit cards and even cash as the chief method of payment by 2020, experts have predicted. A survey of more than 1,000 technology experts has found that the majority believe contactless payment will overtake cash and credit cards in this decade. The survey found that more than 60% of technology experts felt [...]
Changes to Credit Card Statements Announced
Credit card customers will be getting a different sort of statement through their letterbox this year, the UK Cards Association has announced. There are currently 31 million card users in the UK, and they are set to see a new type of credit card statement for the first time this year. The new statements are [...]
Men Spend More With Credit Cards Than Women
Men spend more money on their credit cards than women do, research into our credit card spending habits has revealed. It was found that the average male credit card user will spend 15% more with his plastic than the average female card user will. The research also revealed that men spend more than women on [...]
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Google Re-enable Prepaid Credit Card Feature for New Application
After being forced to suspend all prepaid credit card functions on their innovative Wallet mobile app following the detection of a security flaw, Google have announced that the service is now back up and running. An official company email stated: “We are happy to announce that you can now add the Google Prepaid Card back [...]