House of cards
The phenomenal growth in credit and debit card transactions over the last couple of years has fuelled fears that our spending patterns are filtered, mapped and stored on ...
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Does NatWest have the legal right to apportion the money I give it as it likes?
Q I have a debt with NatWest - an overdraft on what was my current account and a personal loan. I've been making payments to both (among other debts) via the CCCS for abo...
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Credit fraud had me at debt's door
A private investigator working for Capital One said I owed £641. I told him I was 15 years older than the person he sought and signed a disclaimer.
Some months lat...
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Fraud squad may have bungled the bung rap
Could it be that certain members of the City of London fraud squad are dead from the neck up? It's a serious charge, but nevertheless it was effectively levelled yesterda...
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Wessex Water chief denies accepting ?1m bribe
Wessex Water today said its chairman and chief executive, Colin Skellett, had denied receiving any payment during the sale of the company to YTL Power International, a Ma...
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Do we have to risk our house to get a loan?
Q My husband and l are thinking of going into business and would, therefore, need to borrow a substantial amount from the bank. Whilst we are aware of the need for a good...
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One of those days
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Current Host: Chris2
Current Topic: Afghan refugees in Britain are to be offered payment to return home. But will they feel undue press...
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Unions postpone London council strikes
Council worker unions today pulled backed from the brink of immediate strike action across the capital in a dispute over London weighting payments.
At a meeting this mor...
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Now get packing
1. Insurance
Admittedly, insurance isn't glamorous. It doesn't quite fit with the idea of you, young and free, racing across the prairie with the wind in your hair. But...
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So now you know
The cheque as a method of payment dates back to the English Civil War in the seventeenth century (as Britons spend £285bn a year using payment cards and the eventual...
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Engineering 
