Your next holiday is on the cards
This has been a summer of plastic for British holidaymakers. More than ever before, we've used our debit and credit cards to take out money from overseas cash machines.
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Numbers game
Of course you know there's more to business than developing a product or service, selling it often, and banking the money. Running a business also involves the back-offic...
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EMI debt threatens hopes of merger
EMI's stretched balance sheet came under fresh scrutiny yesterday after a leading credit agency threatened to downgrade the group's debt to junk status if it made a bid f...
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Pain at the airport - and insurance hassle at home
I suffered chest pain at Gerona airport and was taken to hospital. International Medical Rescue (IMR) arranged a hotel for a few extra days and a flight home. It also pro...
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When it comes to tax returns, short is sweet
If there is one thing worse than a hefty tax return hitting the doormat, it's the arrival of the deadline for filling it in. The task is made 10 times worse if you also h...
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The oldest trick in the chequebook
With all the recent horror stories about identity theft, credit and debit card cloning and breaches of online banking security, we seem almost to expect to be duped of ou...
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Feed back
A lonely battle
I read with great interest the story regarding an attempt to defraud Barclays Bank customers (Barclays calls in cyber-police, September 15), by sendin...
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Barclays calls in cyber-police
Barclays has called in the cyber-police and slapped a limit on online cash transfers in an attempt to head off an email fraud aimed at its internet banking customers.
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Royal Mail finances probe
Claims that the Royal Mail has exaggerated its losses to justify plans to make 30,000 redundancies, and to buttress the uncompromising stance it is taking in pay negotiat...
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OFT 'failed' on card crackdown
A powerful committee of MPs yesterday accused the office of fair trading of "sounding like apologists" for the credit card industry and of failing in its duty to protect ...
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