Can Singaporeans Living Overseas Still Get Credit Card Benefits from Their Singapore Credit Cards?
So you’ve done the research and applied for a whole bunch of credit cards in order to milk as many cash ...
15 December 2016
Cashback, Free Petrol or Uber Rebates – Which Credit Card Sign Up Bonus is Best for You?
Competition is always good for the consumer. In the very highly competitive industries of private car hires ...
21 November 2016
4 Ways to Decide Which Credit Card Works Best for Your Year-End Holiday
Can you believe it? There are only 7 more weeks left to the end of this crazy rollercoaster year, and I ...
10 November 2016
These Dining Privileges Will Change The Way You Dine, and You Don’t Even Have to Pay For Them
In a city like Singapore, you’re never too far away from good food. No, let me rephrase that – It’s almost ...
28 September 2016
This is the Only Credit Card You’ll Need for the Whole Family
It’s December again and you know what that means – it’s the holidays! That time of the year where most ...
22 September 2016
If You’re Going to Spend More than $15,000 On a Single Purchase, Which is the Best Cashback Credit Card to Use?
I’m not planning to buy a car, get married or travel the world in the near future, but even if I was, I ...
18 September 2016
If You Drive in Singapore, This Credit Card Might Be Better Than Any Other Card in Singapore
Everyone knows that it’s ridiculously expensive to own a car in Singapore. You spend thousands on COE, ...
13 September 2016
What Does Singapore Need to Do to be Fully Cashless?
Everybody has that one friend who always uses the excuse that he has “no cash” when the bill arrives, and ...
24 August 2016
Want to Maximise Your Cash Rebates While Dining? Use These Credit Cards
Maybe I’m too innocent or naïve, but I don’t know how people who cheat on their significant others do it. ...
20 July 2016
Is the New American Express Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer Card the Best Air Miles Credit Card? Or the Worst?
In my teens, I made some questionable life choices – I dabbled in Tarot, I read Ayn Rand, I enjoyed listening ...
24 May 2016
Here’s How You Can Maximise Your Credit Card Usage with MoneySmart’s New App
They say there are four important steps to the perfect relationship. It is important to find someone who ...
28 April 2016
3 Security Aspects About Your Credit Card’s Design You Should Consider
Credit cards and comic books have a couple of things in common when it comes to my finances. They both ...
21 April 2016
10 Rewards You Never Knew You Could Earn With a Credit Card
I am a firm believer of retail therapy. Although I can’t really explain it, I believe there is definitely ...
21 March 2016
How Much is Your Overseas Shopping Spree Really Costing You?
Singaporeans love to shop, and with our world becoming more and more connected, a lot of that shopping ...
5 February 2016
4 Tips for Actually Benefitting From Your Credit Cards
If you take personal finance advice from women’s magazines or Men’s Health, you could be forgiven for thinking ...
30 December 2015
3 Reasons Why Taking a Cash Advance on Your Credit Card is Financial Suicide
When you’re in desperate need of money that you don’t have, one option is to withdraw money using your ...
21 October 2015
The 5 Best Items to Buy With 0% Interest Instalment Payment Plans
When I was a kid, I would sometimes go without lunch for days. No, it’s not because my parents were poor ...
5 October 2015
6 Smart Ways to Use Your Credit Cards to Get Travel Perks
If you’re like most people in Singapore, each time a long weekend rolls around you frantically search for ...
19 August 2015
How Do You Determine What the “Best” Credit Card Is?
Think back to your first credit card and how you chose it. Did you pick it because you liked the colour, ...
30 July 2015
5 Things to Watch Out For Before You Splurge Online in Foreign Currencies
Shopping online has made it so easy to spend your hard earned money. Because you don’t actually see any ...
12 May 2015
Cashback Credit Cards – How They Actually Work and What You Need To Know
As Singaporeans, we’re an interesting species. When it comes to looking for good food or places to make ...
7 May 2015
5% Unlimited Cash Rebate? Yes, There Is Such a Thing And Here’s How It Works
The rise in popularity of cash rebate for credit card expenditure is something you might not have expected ...
27 April 2015
Hate Calling Credit Card Companies? Here’s How To Deal With Credit Card Call Centres
In another life, long before I got this awesome gig with MoneySmart.sg, I was a customer service officer ...
12 March 2015
3 Best Credit Cards for Students In Singapore
In my day, students had allowances of $8. And those were the rich kids. Our mobile phones was two soup ...
20 January 2015
Do You Have the Right Credit Card, or Some Piece of Plastic Junk?
When I got my first credit card, I was pretty pleased with myself. I had picked the best of the best, I ...
14 January 2015