It’s important to know how to take advantage of credit and debit cards and using them correctly is particularly important for college grads. Building credit will allow you to make bigger purchases, ...

Debit cards let you pay for things with money in your bank account, while credit cards pay with a line of credit. A debit ...

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When you’re shopping, and you’ve got everything you were looking for and are at the till, you might just pick a card to pay without much thought. But all cards are not the same. Here we explain how ...

If you run your debit card as credit, it will likely delay the money being taken from your checking account by a few days. Choosing credit instead of entering your debit card's PIN can help minimize ...

Aspiration has discontinued the Aspiration Zero credit card and will be closing accounts on May 3, 2023. For more information, click here. When it comes to choosing the right credit card for your ...

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Despite how it sounds, you can’t technically use your debit card as a credit card — but you can choose whether a merchant processes the transaction as debit or credit. If you enter your PIN, the ...