If you find yourself in the situation that you are unable to pay your credit card debt balance off each month then there are steps you can take to reduce your interest charges.
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Not all credit cards are created equally. And so it makes it that much harder to decide which credit card offer to choose. There are many factors you sh.....
The fall in the Shanghai stock exchange led to a jam at trading websites in Australia. Yesterday, there was a massive amount of traffic on the CommSec and E*Trade websites, causing E*Trade to close down its website for a short time as thousands of users logged in. E*Trade shut down non-essential parts of its website to cope with the extra traffic. Some CommSec clients could not access the website and the site was running slower than usual but it did not crash. The brown-outs emphasis the challenge faced by owners of high demand websites dealing with unprecedented amounts of site traffic.
An online fraud survey has found that phishing scams are undermining customers confidence in electronic messages allegedly from financial institutions, which means that banks are losing the option of communicating with customers via email.............Details
More and more banks are now providing online banking customers with an electronic two-factor authentication token to reduce the impact of phishing and online banking fraud.............Details
Online share broking has become more popular with the booming share market, and last year E*Trade's customer accounts increased by 29 per cent.............Details
The ANZ is ramping up its wealth management business to take advantage of the booming share market and moved yesterday to take full control of online stockbroker E*Trade.............Details
The 4 major banks as well as some 'second tier' banks such as HSBC and Bendigo Bank are offering two-factor authentication for their internet banking services however this is sometimes restricted to heavy or business users.............Details
