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May 2006

• The banking industry defends its charges

April 2006

• The Debts That Wouldn't Die!
• Teens need money lesson
• I hate hidden fees
• Lack of credit card knowledge, could cost you
• National Survey Reveals Consumers Lack Basic Facts
• Store cards criticised for lack of transparency
• OFT cracks down on card charges

March 2006

• Crackdown on rip-off store cards
• OFT warns of credit card cheque costs
• Credit card health warning

February 2006

• Judging The Hidden Costs Of Credit Cards
• Barclaycard gets tough on customers
• Card rates 'causing confusion'

January 2006

• Ireland bans credit limit hikes

September 2005

• Watchdog calls for store card 'wealth warning'
• Credit card payments to rise
• Roberts v. Fleet Bank - Other Text in Credit Card Solicitation Letter Can Influence Whether Disclosures in Schumer Box Meet TILA Requirements
• Sanders introduces Credit Card Protection Act

July 2005

• Summary boxes shunned by credit card lenders
• Q&A: credit card charges
• Credit card advice site launched
• Fee-charging ATMs given all-clear
• Travellers warned over credit card charges

June 2005

• Nationwide launches innovative summary box for personal loans
• Nationwide introduce summary box for personal loans

May 2005

• Credit card holders call for SMS alerts
• Call for single card rate formula

April 2005

• Credit-card disclosures: fine print not fine for some
• Data Brokers Step Into Senate Panel's Fire

January 2005

• Banking Code review: Credit Action - Credit card agreement summary box is welcome
• Family finances: Speak up now on credit-card gripes

November 2004

• Why do we need new credit laws?
• Banking Code review: Credit Action - Credit card agreement summary box is welcome

October 2004

• TSC: Summary box and traffic lights get thumbs-up from gov't
• Credit card bills to carry warning

September 2004

• FLA response to Competition Commission Statement on store cards inquiry

August 2004

• DTI throws out plans for credit rate cap
• A little interest in rates could ease the pain
• moneysupermarket.com responds to John McFall assessing progress into the transparency of credit card charges

July 2004

• Little jamón tomorrow for investors in Abbey funds
• MPs demand 'urgent limit' on commissions
• TSC report: Summary boxes "must be introduced" within 6 months

June 2004

• DTI accused of failing to act on card charges
• Card issuers braced for assault
• Virgin welcomes Labor credit card policy
• Consumer Credit Regulation Arrives in UK

May 2004

• Better to bank with a mutual
• Insurance Bosses under Fire over Savings Risks

April 2004

• Hard sell needed on money management

March 2004

• Costly Credit-Card Tricks
• Store Cards Discredited
• Credit fever must be cooled
• Plastic in meltdown
• Consumer confusion over credit card costs
• Credit Card Information 'Difficult to Understand'
• Why change needs to be on the cards
• Watchdog savages credit card firms
• Credit card rip-offs report due today
• Proposed Changes to The Consumer Credit Regime

February 2004

• OFT tells banks to pay out interest
• UK credit cards: MPs angry at lack of transparency
• Consumers 'unaware of APR discrepancies'
• Credit card interest 'confusing'
• Barclays profits soar to ?3.8bn
• Card companies clash with MPs
• Consumers dealt a bad hand with credit cards

January 2004

• The dangers of relying on credit cards
• Professor Elaine Kempson appointed to carry out 2004 Banking Code Review

December 2003

• We shouldn't criticise Gordon
• Property and equity still finding favour
• MPs blame credit card industry for debt woes
• MPs condemn UK credit card firms
• Lenders already committed to greater transparency
• Credit card companies 'let down' customers
• Credit card industry under fire
• MPs attack credit card firms for 'highly misleading' practices
• Banks cash in on UK debt mountain
• House of Commons - Treasury - First Report
• Credit crackdown as debt levels soar
• R.I.P. Small Print
• End to the £2bn credit card rip-off
• Credit law to end pain of small print
• OFT in Blitz on Loan Sharks
• Why do we need new credit laws?
• Consumers confused by credit talk
• Lenders face tough 'loan shark' laws

October 2003

• Big banks accused of 'cynicism'
• Bank chiefs face grilling over credit cards
• Apacs launches credit card leaflets code

September 2003

• UK Credit Card Companies Bow To Government Pressure
• Treasury Committee Oral Evidence
• Thinking inside plastic's box

August 2003

• APR riddles prompt multinational reform effort
• Gardiner Welcomes Decision to Proceed with the Honesty Box
• Chairman Presses Card Industry to Make Charges Clearer
• McFall presses card providers
• Simpler card charges 'next year'
• So now you know

July 2003

• MPs aim to clear up card charges
• Banks cave in

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