UPDATE in April 2021, Barclaycard has made another set of cuts to customers' credit limits. In July 2020 Barclaycard sent out letters to some customers saying their credit limit may have been set too high. They say: We've recently reviewed the way we set some of our customers' credit limits and can see that the limit we gave you previously may have been higher than it should have been … [Read more...]
Articles about credit cards
Credit cards can be really useful but they can also be dangerous - if you just tap the card it can be too easy to run up bills that will take you many years to clear. So how can you make the best use of them? The articles here look at
make sure you get the benefits - practical steps you can take so that the banks don't make huge profits from you;
what's new and what's changing with credit cards in Britain?
too much credit card debt - how can you tackle it fast?