Boom in credit card fraud as banks mail 130m chip and pin replacements
The introduction of new technology designed to make credit cards safer is fuelling a mini boom in card fraud caused by the banks sending out millions of chip and pin repl...
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Regent delays results after discovering audit error
Debt-laden Regent Inns, which operates the Australian-themed Walkabout bar chain, said yesterday it had discovered an accounting mistake that put it in breach of its bank...
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Are Asians denied the credit they deserve?
Southall was this week named as the area with the country's worst credit rating in a survey which raises serious questions about how credit reference agencies are treatin...
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Travel news in brief
Play your cards right
British holiday-makers waste ?495 million every year by using the wrong kind of payment card abroad, according to two recent reports. Withdrawing ...
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Police swoop on Nigerian email fraud ringleaders
More than 500 suspected fraudsters have been arrested, and $500 million of assets seized, in an international crackdown on West African 'advance fee' fraud involving the ...
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Bonus plan to cut NHS waiting lists
Individual NHS doctors and nurses will pocket bonus payments worth hundreds of pounds for carrying out extra operations, health minister John Hutton announced today.
The...
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Big guns test peace strategy in Mongolia
If there is ever a permanent United Nations peacekeeping force, its members may one day trace their origins to the vast pasturelands outside Ulan Bator in Mongolia, where...
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NHS funds for poor areas go to richest
Independent NHS inspectors accused the government last night of shortchanging patients in some of the poorest parts of England by denying their local hospitals and GPs a ...
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Cards to replace notes in our affections
Credit and debit cards are expected to overtake cash this year as Britain's most popular method of payment, according to a new industry report yesterday.
It will be the...
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Yukos teetering as banks call in debts
Yukos, the Russian oil giant, today lurched closer to bankruptcy as a group of creditors declared the company in default on $1bn (?545.7m) of loans.
The notification cam...
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