GN Focus | Credit, Debit and Loyalty Cards
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Monday May 28
Practical plastic
The prepaid cards market targets a range of segments from employees and travellers to homemakers and students, with various offerings
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Monday May 28
Chips beat strips
Chip-and-pin-enabled cards are fast elbowing out those only equipped with magnetic strips, and a UAE Central Bank stipulation is speeding up the process in a major way across the UAE
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Monday May 28
A guide to credit card freebies
Investments, financial aid and spending vouchers are some of the schemes that consumers are offered with their credit cards. From using them as merely a convenient way to pay for goods and services, shoppers are now looking to these products to provide added value
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Monday May 28
Important considerations before buying
For the sake of convenience and security, many UAE residents have adopted a credit card as the main method of purchase. Careful shopping of that all-important plastic could help you save a little bit extra too
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Monday May 28
Build relationships, not programmes
It takes more than a random discount to hold on to today's customers, who have innumerable options to choose from
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Monday May 28
Continued innovation is just plane smart
There is much room for improvement in the airline loyalty sector of today, particularly with competition from other programmes in the travel and financial sector
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Monday May 28
Getting rewarded for being disloyal
Companies worldwide have employed loyalty card schemes to attract and retain customers, but now the concept has been twisted by a few clever entrepreneurs, introducing disloyalty cards to encourage customers to discover different avenues instead of being loyal to any single one
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Monday May 28
Kula bridges the 'use it or lose it' gap
A new loyalty programme allows consumers to convert unused frequent flyer miles into cash for charities of their choice
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Monday May 28
Charge straight past the debt trap
As consumers seek to take control of their finances and stay out of debt, charge cards may be the ideal solution
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Monday May 28
Credit card debt: lurking a swipe away
Financial experts tell us why credit card usage should not be a way of life and how you can avoid being another consumer debt statistic
