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Whether it's dollars or euros, pre-paid can be a fantastic form of plastic
People are increasingly relying on credit and debit cards for spending abroad: last year there were 300 million transactions on cards overseas, with £18.1bn spent on purchases and £7.1bn taken out as cash.
Where can investors hide from the bear?
We are in a bear market: it's - almost - official.
I've lost out on the chance to savour a slice of history
We redeemed our mortgage with Alliance & Leicester last September.
How we are coping with hard times
The anecdotal evidence has been building up as fast as the prices of energy, petrol and food have soared.
How two banks misplaced £12,000 - and spent five months looking for it
Angela Banham has been waiting five months to find out where the £12,000 she transferred from Abbey to Halifax has gone.
Give our bureaux more cash
It's a good thing that more money is being made available to provide free legal, benefits and other advisory services.
Credit crunch: bank chief warns of house price slide
House prices in Britain and the United States will continue to fall for the next two years, the chairman of one of the world's largest banks has warned.
Bosses join the IVF learning curve
On Friday Louise Brown will celebrate her 30th birthday.
Banking's conquistadors to the rescue
At around four in the afternoon on the Friday before last, the phone rang in the office of David Bennett, the chief executive of Alliance & Leicester.
A threat to legal help in the town that needs it most
More than 10,000 people in Hull have pledged their support to prevent the closure of their local Citizens Advice bureau after it lost a huge chunk of its funding.