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Category: Banks
Motley Fool: Get A Mortgage With Bad Credit
If you wanted to borrow money in the old days and you had bad credit, you had to skulk off to some dark, sinister, pee-pee-soaked alley to find the villains who offered them, complete with their appalling small print and shocking interest rates.
Motley Fool: My Ongoing Bank Charges Saga
From my last article on this subject, you will have assumed that my claim for bank charges was on the verge of victory. Unfortunately, I was jumping the gun a bit.
Motley Fool: Beware Of These 0% Card Tricks!
When is interest-free credit not interest free? When you’re forced to pay fees (and, amazingly, even interest) for the privilege of borrowing money at 0% for an extended period!
This Is Money: Account Upgrades Make You Pay
Hundreds of thousands of bank customers are being ‘upgraded’ to fee-paying current accounts without their permission, according to new research
This Is Money: Barclays Lands New Premiership Deal
Barclays Bank has extended its sponsorship of football’s Premier League with a three-year deal worth £65.8m
This Is Money: Enron’s Fastow Says UK Banks ‘knew Of Fraud’
Former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow, who was senetnced to six years last night, has said that major UK banks were aware of his financial schemes
Motley Fool: My Favourite Spin-Offs
We Brits call them demergers, but Americans call them spin-offs. But whatever you call them, breaking up a company into smaller chunks is quite fashionable right now.
Motley Fool: Even Better Than Stoozing
‘Stoozing’ is a damn curious word. It’s when you get a 0% on balance transfers credit card and transfer the balance to a bank account that pays a high interest. Before the introductory 0% period expires, you pay off the credit card, leaving you with the interest you’ve earned. Thus, you get free money.
Motley Fool: Credit Card Rates Rocket!
Bad news for borrowers: interest rates are going up — and that’s official.