101 things you were too embarrassed to ask about money
When there are so many worries about credit card fraud and identity theft, this doesn't seem an unreasonable concern. While we're shredding our bank statements and puttin...
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Technobile
It's a good job credit cards are tough or the Sainsbury's zapper-woman would have torn it in two. We were fighting, literally, on the latest technological front: chip and...
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Speculators circle Whitbread
Rumours of a break-up for Whitbread, the leisure conglomerate that owns the Premier Lodge hotel chain and Costa Coffee, resurfaced yesterday after some unusual activity i...
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Has Elephant made a big mistake?
Q My son had car insurance from Elephant. He set up a monthly direct debit but only one payment had been made before his car was written off in an accident that wasn't hi...
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Mastering your finances
Can you really afford to do a postgraduate course? Debt is increasingly a disincentive for graduates thinking of staying on at university. The average student graduates w...
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Britons favour debit over credit cards
The popularity of credit cards declined last year, as consumers increasingly favoured their debit cards, figures released today revealed.
Overall, a total of £273bn...
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Mastercard issuers 'taxed consumers
A charging structure on purchases made with a Mastercard credit or debit card kept the cost of processing payments unduly high and was like a tax on UK consumers, the Off...
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Can my 75-year-old parents get a bridging loan?
Q My mum and stepdad are likely to be moving nearer to us. As it would seem better for them to buy a place and settle in rather than wait until they have sold their own p...
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Banking on debt
As a student you may not expect to have much money, but what cash you do have needs a home. You may well have had a current account in the past, but fierce competition am...
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Corus profits soar to ?435m
The steelmaker Corus today saw its first half profits more than double as it continued to make strides in its recovery programme.
Pre-tax profits at the Anglo-Dutch firm...
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