26 Sep 2002
| by MediaWeek
Zenith wins credit card 'crime' brief...On the cards: Zenith wins credit card anti-crime brief ...
20 Sep 2002
| by Our Parliamentary correspondent
his flagship tax credit schemes, claiming the campaign has flopped....for the Inland Revenue and the Treasury to promote the new child tax credit, which takes effect next April ...
will encourage people on existing tax credits to claim the new benefit. A third burst in late October ...
that in the first two years of the working families tax credit, the Government spent more than £20 million ...
20 Sep 2002
Financial services company Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) has extended its relationship
13 Sep 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
the misleading practice of advertising credit deals as 'interest free', after the government started a crackdown...The three high-street chains were all advertising "interest-free credit" and APRs of 0%, when interest was, in fact, payable from the date of the agreement if a lump sum was not paid off in full by the end of the interest-free period.
The Office of Fair Trading has said that such advertising breaks ...
13 Sep 2002
| by MediaWeek
Optimedia gets credit by landing MBNA task...MBNA: £11m spent in the past year MBNA, the credit card and loan company, has appointed Optimedia to its media planning and buying brief. The agency saw off competition including ...
, media buying for MBNA's Visa card, Mastercard and credit card range was through Universal McCann ...
13 Sep 2002
| by ALASDAIR REID
Are broadcasters and media buying agencies committed to sorting out the credit guarantee system...For months now, media buyers and TV contractors have been trying to develop new rules on credit insurance. At first glance this might seem a trivial back-office issue, the province of accountants ...
for its airtime upfront rather than renew its credit insurance. Arguably MPG was unlucky - it believed ...
19 Jul 2002
| by CAMILLA PALMER
of advertising its new PIN number
credit card verification scheme, due to roll out by 2004....to verify their credit card purchases instead of signing for
them at the point of purchase ...
19 Jul 2002
Computer Cab appointed BJK E with a view to promoting its recently
introduced credit card booking service. The company hopes this service will double the number of bookings it
currently takes. Computer Cab takes an estimated 13,000 bookings a
day. Andrew Robson ...
18 Jul 2002
| by Camilla Palmer,
different ways of advertising its new PIN number credit card verification scheme, due to roll out by 2004....initiative will mean consumers will have to key in a number to verify their credit card purchases instead ...
11 Jul 2002
| by Matthew Cowen,
LONDON - One of the world's largest credit insurance groups has threatened to remove its coverage...a 48-page report posted on its website. The US credit rating agency, Fitch, gave an A credit rating ...