Despite the increasing fees and the necessity of credit cards for a lot of consumers, most people do not notice that credit card fees can actually decrease significantly with fees that you can actually avoid paying. The fees that most consumers pay for are fees that are often times unnoticed or unaware of. These are [...]

For the next few months there have been no signs or reports for an increase in interest rates for credit cards. The last increases in interest for most companies have resulted to loss of confidence in a lot of consumers using credit cards. With the new Carbon Tax and the increase in prices of goods [...]

This period of economic uncertainty and environment of fear of overspending, many Australians are surely hoping that money would just fall out of the sky right into their pockets. If such an event would indeed take place, where and what would be the best places to spend it on? Bruce Jackson of Nine MSN News [...]

The EFTPOS, or Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale, is a system that promotes payments through other means like debit cards. Recently more of these systems have promoted the use of cards over cash. A new campaign aims to use more of its card system, according to their head of marketing Neera Manawakul, “…using [...]

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is currently considering a move to regulate surcharging of credit card transactions. This is being contradicted by the Australian Retailers Association (ARA), who underscores the right of retailers to apply surcharges on credit card transactions. This, in the end would result to customers shouldering the additional costs, thereby leading [...]