03 Jun
Credit cards balance transfers made to new credit cards which have a 0% initial interest rate can be beneficial in 2 typical ways. One approach can save you a lot of money on existing debt, and the other approach can make you “free money”!
The first approach is for people with balances on credit cards which are charging interest. If you transfer those balances to credit cards which charge zero interest (for an initial period) then you avoid having to pay any interest on those balances, so you can use all the repayments to pay down the balances themselves rather than paying any interest. Read the rest of this article...
11 Feb
A credit cards APR means the Annual Percentage Rate of interest charged. IT is common now for cards to offer a zero-percent initial APR which can be on purchases, balance-transfers or sometimes both. This initial 0% period can either be used to avoid paying any interest on existing borrowing or can be used to make a profit. Read the rest of this article...
25 Jan
Credit cards balance transfers made to new credit cards which have a 0% initial interest rate can be beneficial in two typical ways. One approach can save you a lot of money on existing debt, and the other approach can make you “free money”!
The first approach is for people with balances on credit cards which are charging interest. If you transfer those balances to credit cards which charge zero interest (for an initial period) then you avoid having to pay any interest on those balances, so you can use all the repayments to pay down the balances themselves rather than paying any interest. Read the rest of this article...
20 Jan
Did you know that it is possible to actually make money using certain credit cards? These cards are called zero interest credit cards, particularly the ones which have zero interest on balance transfers. What you do is you use the credit on the card to put money into a high-interest bank account then you repay the card just before the zero interest period expires, and the interest you have been paid from the high interest bank account is entirely profit. Read the rest of this article...
12 Jan
0 credit cards mean those which charge no interest at all for an initial period. They are now common and often have a zero interest initial period of a year although other periods are possible.
Credit cards were invented in 1950’s America and are now used throughout the developed world. However their use is not to the same degree in different countries. In Japan they are used hardly at all except by very large companies, where as in the UK, USA and Canada they are used by most people. Read the rest of this article...
