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	<title>Credit Card Comparison - Best Credit Card Offers</title>
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	<description>Compare credit cards: best credit card offers in Australia</description>
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		<title>New transactions account at ANZ Bank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next  week Anz planning to start selling a new transactions account , offering a  raft of banking and non-banking extras for an $18 monthly fee. Banks  have given away a lot of revenue on retail transaction banking since  dropping or reducing overdrawn account, late payment and other exception  fees last year.
ANZ, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bestcreditcardoffers.com.au/creditcardsblog/anz-will-start-selling-a-new-transactions-account-next-week-offering-a-raft-of-banking-and-non-banking-extras-for-an-18-monthly-fee-banks-have-given-away-a-lot-of-revenue-on-retail-transaction-ban/</link>
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		<title>Credit Card Rates Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Purchase and cash advance rates on some credit cards, particularly some low rate credit cards, have gone up by more than the movements in the Reserve Bank&#8217;s official cash rate this year. Card issuers have also been changing their low-rate or zero-rate balance-transfer deals, shortening the periods for which the low rates apply. Many cards [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bestcreditcardoffers.com.au/creditcardsblog/credit-card-rates-updates/</link>
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		<title>Criticism on Woolworths debit card Scheme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Woolworths should reverse its clumsy intervention into the payments  system to prevent any further inconvenience and confusion for scheme  debit users. &#8220;Woolworths announced on April Fool&#8217;s Day that  it would force all Visa Debit and MasterCard Debit cardholders to use  the EFTPOS system when shopping at Woolworths group stores, such as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bestcreditcardoffers.com.au/creditcardsblog/woolworths-should-reverse-its-clumsy-intervention-into-the-payments-system-to-prevent-any-further-inconvenience-and-confusion-for-scheme-debit-users-quotwoolworths-announced-on-april-fools-da/</link>
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		<title>From credit cards to debit cards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AUSTRALIANS&#8217; love affair with credit  cards is waning as people switch to using cash and debit cards. 				 
 Reserve Bank of Australia statistics show credit card use has  dropped almost 17 per cent in the past five years and now accounts for  just under 42 per cent of all card transactions. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bestcreditcardoffers.com.au/creditcardsblog/from-credit-cards-to-debit-cards/</link>
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		<title>Aviva cost savings emerge for NAB</title>
		<description><![CDATA[National Australia Bank is expecting to extract more “synergies”, meaning cost savings, from its takeover in late 2009 of Aviva, the Australian wealth management platform business purchased from the firm’s UK-based parent. In the course of an interview with Business Spectator, published on Friday, Cameron Clyne, NAB’s chief executive, said that, “with regard to Aviva, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bestcreditcardoffers.com.au/creditcardsblog/aviva-cost-savings-emerge-for-nab/</link>
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		<title>Good times sting as interest rates rise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BOOMING house prices contributed to  the Reserve Bank&#8217;s decision to boost the cash rate to 4.25 per cent  yesterday, with most economists warning several more rate rises are  likely this year. 				 
 In a widely-anticipated move, the central bank notched up its fifth  25 basis-point rate hike in seven months, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bestcreditcardoffers.com.au/creditcardsblog/interest-rate-rise/</link>
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		<title>Debt stress on the rise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DEBT stress has risen to levels not seen since September 2008, with one in five Australians finding it hard to make repayments, a survey says. Veda Advantage&#8217;s biannual Australian Debt Study reveals one in five Australians with debt are finding it difficult to make repayments or unsure how they will make their next repayment.
The survey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bestcreditcardoffers.com.au/creditcardsblog/debt-stress-on-the-rise/</link>
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		<title>2020 vision for HSBC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The appetite of foreign banks for investment in  meaningful distribution capacity in Australia ebbs and flows. In the case of  HSBC, it is flowing again.  The Sydney Morning Herald reported that HSBC is working on a program of opening between five and 10  branches a year between 2010 and 2020. The bank’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bestcreditcardoffers.com.au/creditcardsblog/2020-vision-for-hsbc/</link>
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		<title>Financial crisis didn&#8217;t stop flow of housing credit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE Reserve Bank says the global  financial crisis did not stop the flow of credit to consumers looking to  buy houses, although the costs of funding those loans increased and  lending standards were tightened. 				 
 RBA assistant governor of financial markets Guy Debelle said the   GFC had a &#8220;material [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bestcreditcardoffers.com.au/creditcardsblog/financial-crisis-didnt-stop-flow-of-housing-credit/</link>
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		<title>Australians being mugged by banks over credit card interest and fees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AUSTRALIANS are being ripped off.  These are the findings of research into how our credit cards stack up  against rules being introduced in Britain. 				 
 The research has emerged amid a furore over Westpac&#8217;s decision to  charge interest on credit card interest and fees. Federal  Treasurer Wayne Swan said Westpac&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bestcreditcardoffers.com.au/creditcardsblog/australians-being-mugged-by-banks-over-credit-card-interest-and-fees-australians-being-mugged-by-banks-over-credit-card-interest-and-fees/</link>
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