There are several credit card companies in Ireland that do introductory offers of zero interest or low interest to people switching switch credit card provider. All these credit card offers are for new customers and they usually allow you to transfer your existing credit card balance and pay little or no interest on it for […]
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Credit and Debit Card Surcharges Banned
A ban on Credit and Debit Card surcharges : Extra charges for paying with a debit or credit were banned across the EU from 13th January 2018. The change is part of the Payment Services Directive, otherwise known as PSD2 Companies can still charge booking fees or admin fees as long as they apply equally […]
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Get Cashback Rewards with a KBC Credit Card
KBC have recently launched a new Credit Card in Ireland that will “reward” you with a 1% credit of what you spend online or in grocery shops. With the bank transaction charges on debit cards – it can be cheaper to do most of your spending with a credit card anyway. The 1% cashback would […]
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Options for Danske Bank Customers
Some of the 150,000 Danske Bank customers will have probably already started moving their bank accounts and credit cards to other providers – the rest of them will need to start looking at alternative banking arrangements pretty soon. Danske Bank announced back in November that they were going to be closing all customer accounts – […]
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Card Fraud at Call Centres
The recent publicity surrounding the potential credit card fraud at the Local Property Tax call centre has prompted us to look into how common this type of fraud is. We sometimes hear about IT systems being hacked and credit card details being stolen – but how safe are your credit card details when paying over […]
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