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	<title>Credit Cards Loans and Mortgages UK &#187; Credit Cards</title>
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		<title>Credit Card Interest Rate Gone Up?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no disguising the fact that financial institutions are tightening purse strings and reducing the amount of credit available to consumers and businesses. Credit card companies have started making changes to the way they do business which reflects the lack of available credit. Many consumers have recently experienced credit card interest rate rises some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MBNA Credit Card Extends 0% Balance Transfer Offer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again MBNA&#8217;s credit cards the Platinum Plus Visa and Platinum Rewards Visa have had their 0% balance transfer offers extended. A regular occurrence, the offer has been extended by 1 month this month until the 1st of August 2009. The 0% offer on purchases has also been extended by 1 month to the 1st [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nationwide launches US Dollar and Euro Tracker Premium accounts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nationwide International has announced that it will be launching US Dollar and Euro Tracker Premium accounts with effect from Wednesday 1 August 2007. The accounts will offer market leading interest rates on offshore, no notice foreign currency accounts. The new accounts will be available to new and existing customers and will offer: Market leading interest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barclays launches pre-pay Travel Money Card</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Creditmarket</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barclays has launched a new free and secure pre-pay chip and PIN card which can be used throughout the world at cash machines and anywhere VISA is accepted. The Travel Money Card is free to purchase and load with money from the equivalent of £100 to £2,500 and is available in British pounds, US dollars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Launch of pre-paid card for employers to handle expenses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Creditmarket</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alliance &#038; Leicester Commercial Bank in association with MoneyCard Limited has launched a Visa Pre-Paid Card designed to pay employee expenses. Making expenses payments to employees with a pre-paid card frees organisations from the risk of issuing company credit cards and the need to handle cash. Pre-paid cards offer an alternative to difficult to manage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday card fees hot up &#8211; costing shoppers £millions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Creditmarket</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UK holidaymakers who are planning to use their credit card abroad this summer could be wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on unnecessary fees. Research from the Post Office shows that 49 per cent of UK holidaymakers plan to use their credit card to shop abroad, accounting for an estimated spend of around £9.4 billion. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lloyds TSB is official Airmiles partner</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lloyds TSB and AIRMILES, the UK&#8217;s leading retail loyalty scheme, have announced a new partnership. From 1 June 2007, Lloyds TSB will become AIRMILES&#8217; official financial services partner, providing it with exclusive rights to offer Airmiles to its customers. New and existing customers will be able to gain more rewards than ever before, as Lloyds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NatWest launches new credit card travel reward programme</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NatWest has announced that it is launching a new travel reward programme. It has joined forces with ebookers, one of Europe’s largest online travel agents and secured the first ever reward deal with easyJet. The YourPoints programme will replace the Bank’s 19-year old relationship with the AIRMILES scheme from June. The airline and travel industry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barclaycard Breathe Helps Customers go Green</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Creditmarket</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barclaycard Breathe helps customers go green with 50 per cent of profits reducing carbon emissions. Barclaycard has announced plans to launch the first UK credit card that donates 50 per cent of its profits to give people across the country a greener card option. The Barclaycard Breathe credit card will see Barclaycard: Donate 50 per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new MBNA Rewards Platinum American Express Credit Card</title>
		<link>http://www.creditmarket.co.uk/news/credit-cards/the-new-mbna-rewards-platinum-american-express-credit-card.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Creditmarket</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As our lives get busier and busier and we have less time for ourselves to do the things we enjoy, it’s good to know there’s somebody we can turn to when we need to sort out our personal lives. MBNA has launched the new MBNA Rewards Platinum American Express Credit Card offering a series of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lloyds TSB calls on &#8216;phone alerts&#8217; to tackle rising tide of card fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.creditmarket.co.uk/news/credit-cards/lloyds-tsb-calls-on-phone-alerts-to-tackle-rising-tide-of-card-fraud.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Creditmarket</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lloyds TSB is stepping up the fight against card fraud, becoming the first UK bank to introduce automated telephone alerts to warn customers of suspicious transactions on their current accounts. The announcement comes as APACS reveals that cases of counterfeit fraud, where cards are cloned, have risen by three per cent, while card not present [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choose Credit Cards, Choose Loans.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Creditmarket</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Choose the possibility of 12 months less of repayments and hundreds of pounds less interest. When considering the option of transferring a credit card balance onto another credit card to take advantage of a 0% offer or taking out a loan to consolidate the credit card debt it pays to sit down and do the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lloyds move to implement £35 fee for credit card customers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Creditmarket</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lloyds latest move to implement a £35 fee for credit card customers that ‘display low usage’ is set to generate a total income of £1.79 million. Nick White, Director of Financial Services at price comparison and switching website uSwitch.com comments: “It has been a turbulent week for banks with continued rumblings that free banking could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK leads the way in chip and PIN rollout</title>
		<link>http://www.creditmarket.co.uk/news/credit-cards/uk-leads-the-way-in-chip-and-pin-rollout.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Creditmarket</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday 14 February 2007 marks the one-year anniversary of PIN Day &#8211; the official change over to chip and PIN in the UK. To recognise this milestone, APACS, the UK payments association, has issued an update on the successful progress of chip and PIN. As at January 2007 APACS figures show that: More than 99.9 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February offers credit card customers a great deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Creditmarket</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Halifax Credit Cards has announced that its online exclusive One Card featuring 0% for 12 months on both balance transfers and purchases will be available until the end of February. The special offer One Card is only available via halifax.co.uk/creditcards and features: 0% for 12 months on balance transfers and purchases (3% balance transfer fee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virgin Credit Card Balance Transfer Fee Rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Creditmarket</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many years the credit card balance transfer wars have been raging with offers getting longer and longer. This has seen the introduction of the ‘Balance trasnfer fee’ which is a charge made by a credit card company when you transfer a balance to them. Usually you wouldn’t do this unless there were other benefits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cardholders warned as fraudsters step up a gear in 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Creditmarket</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As 2007 gets underway, a new report from Morgan Stanley Consumer Banking has found that millions of Britons are leaving themselves open to fraudsters. The report compiles the most common ID Theft ‘sins’ and reveals those who are taking the most unnecessary risks by failing to protect themselves. The most common sin was throwing away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lloyds TSB launches pre-paid travel money card</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Creditmarket</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lloyds TSB has launched a pre-paid Travel Money Card as a more convenient alternative to cash or travellers’ cheques providing a safe way to take money abroad. The Lloyds TSB Travel Money Card can be pre-loaded, before travellers depart, with between £150 and £3,000 in either Euros or US Dollars and costs just £7.50 which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Borrowers urged to look beyond short-term interest free deals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Creditmarket</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[M&#038;S Money urges borrowers to look beyond short-term interest free deals unless they are confident of repaying their debt during the initial period. Latest research by Marks &#038; Spencer Money shows that the majority of Britain’s credit card borrowers have taken to the practice of moving debts from one card to another – known as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Play your cards right</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With extended introductory offers and low typical APRs still available, Halifax is urging Christmas shoppers to choose their credit card wisely before they buy their Christmas gifts. With a range of different cards currently available, Halifax believes it has a card to suit every shoppers’ needs. Halifax is currently offering: One Card &#8211; 0% for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shop stress-free and safe online this Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Creditmarket</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To coincide with the busiest online shopping weeks of the year (9th and 16th December), APACS, the UK payments association is launching a fraud awareness campaign to promote the online security systems provided by Visa and MasterCard. Newly commissioned research by APACS highlights how consumer confidence in online shopping has risen dramatically, with consumers of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain branded ‘card fraud capital’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Creditmarket</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Card fraud has affected more than seven million people in the UK, figures show. Research from the European Security Transport Association (Esta) found that nearly 20 per cent of the adult population in Great Britain had been targeted as part of a credit or debit card scam. It makes the UK the card fraud capital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problem customers ‘will face credit card rate rises’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Credit card customers who persistently pay late or go over their limit could face increases in their interest rate charges as companies react to the regulatory squeeze on the industry, the leading financial services research company Defaqto warns. And it also believes annual fees for credit cards are likely to be imposed. The new tough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain Prepares for Merry Xmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Creditmarket</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brits are preparing to increase their credit card spending during the 2006 festive spending season, according to the latest results from the Morgan Stanley Card Index. Between October and December 2006 the average Brit will fork out £1,270 on their credit cards. Hot on the heels of the Datamonitor report, showing that spending on cards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit card repayments on the rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Creditmarket</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The amount spent on credit cards in the UK is up by one per cent to £124.1 billion (from £122.8 billion in 2004) whilst the number of transactions has fallen by one per cent to 2.1 billion, according to a report by APACS, the UK payments association. While cardholders rein in their spending, they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK wallets still contain ‘passive plastic’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Creditmarket</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 20 million UK consumers are still using unrewarding credit cards, according to new research out from American Express. To mark National Giving Week (16 – 22 October), the UK’s leading Credit Card for ‘conscience consumers’, is urging credit card holders to give up their ‘passive plastic’ and make their spending count. Despite the rise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barclaycard Flexi Rate Credit Card &#8211; As Seen on TV</title>
		<link>http://www.creditmarket.co.uk/news/credit-cards/barclaycard-flexi-rate-credit-card-as-seen-on-tv.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barclaycard are well remembered for their choice of well known comedy actors to put across the features of their credit card range and the introduction of their Flexi Rate Credit Card is no exception. Historical campaigns have seen Rowan Atkinson as a hapless MI6 agent and more recently Jennifer Saunders on her travels, both demonstrating the insurance protection available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free England Football Shirt with FA Credit Card</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the hugely popular England football shirt offer that was run during the World Cup – this great offer is back for a limited time only! From now until further notice consumers who take out an FA card will receive an England (home) shirt when they spend on the card for the first time within 28 days of opening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charity Credit Cards could Save Consumers Thousands</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charitable credit cards now offer much more than just an incentive to ‘do your bit’ just by making use of an everyday item. Many of them now offer some of the best balance transfer offers in the industry. Recently announced are the latest balance transfer offers available from the WWF Credit Card and the National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marbles Credit Card now offering 0% for 12 months</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The marbles credit card has been at the forefront of the credit card industry for many years and has consistently offered market leading incentives to consumers. With the introduction of a 12 month balance transfer offer the Marbles credit card is now in line with the longest available balance transfer offers available. Other card issuers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Express top for cash back</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As GE Money withdraws its Everday Money cash back card to new applicants, American Express continues to offer a market-leading cash back rate on its Platinum Credit Card. The Platinum Credit Card offers new applicants MoneyBack at 3% for the first three months. After the three month period, MoneyBack will be calculated at the following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MBNA Sony Card &amp; FREE Mp3 Walkman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MBNA are pleased to announce a FREE Sony Flash MP3 Walkman for every customer who takes out the SonyCard ! From 4th October MBNA will be offering a great new incentive to consumers who take out the MBNA SonyCard. Once the account is opened and used for the first time the customers account will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barclaycard Revamps Student Credit Card</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As thousands of students head off to university this month, Barclaycard is launching (4th September) Barclaycard Student Credit Card, a new credit card designed to help students use credit sensibly and gain the most from their time at university. Barclaycard Student offers the lowest typical APR of any student credit card and has introduced a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MBNA Platinum Rewards Credit Card is back on your TV screens!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the performance of the hugely successful TV campaign brought to our screens from the MBNA Platinum Rewards Credit Card earlier this year– the campaign is coming back to a TV near you and this time its going national! The campaign will start on 1st October and will run for the whole month . TV [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit card problems overstated</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The popular image that Britons “are up to their necks” in credit card debt is “largely a myth”, a survey concludes. According to the results of 48,000 interviews by Mori, the whole issue has been “hyped” and “overstated”. The report suggests that more than half of the £50bn owed on credit cards is not “true” [...]]]></description>
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