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
American Express Credit Cards in Singapore – MoneySmart’s Recommended Top 3 Cards
American Express may be one of the world’s oldest card companies, but they’ve only just recently started ...
13 January 2015
The Top 5 Credit Cards in Singapore You’ll Never Own
I know what it’s like to have people fall at my feet, make way for me wherever I go and scream whenever ...
2 January 2015
ANZ Credit Cards in Singapore – MoneySmart’s Recommended Top 3 Cards
ANZ is relative newcomer when it comes to the area of credit cards, but they’ve certainly not come in just ...
18 December 2014
Singapore Credit Card Interest Rates Going Up – Do You Know How Much You’re Getting Charged?
Last time, policemen wore shorts. Forget that, now we’ll be saying, “Last time, credit card interest rate ...
15 December 2014
Year-End Holidays: Read This Before Booking Anything
It’s the end of the year and you’re ready to get away for a much needed holiday with your family. You add ...
8 December 2014
What Happens If You Can’t Pay Your Credit Card Bill in Full?
Credit cards are great – right up until the time you receive your credit card statement(s) in the mail ...
31 October 2014
5 Reasons Your Credit Card Application Got Rejected
Like those other obsolete symbols of wealth the Vertu phone and the Prada nylon backpacks ah lians used ...
21 October 2014
4 Myths About Credit Cards That Are Hurting You Financially
Sure, credit card debt might have driven more than a couple of people over the edge, but that doesn’t mean ...
16 October 2014
Credit Card Fraud – The Do’s and Don’ts That Will Ensure Your Money Is Safe
Credit cards are a big reason why Singaporeans have so much purchasing power. After all, most credit card ...
4 September 2014
Here’s What You Absolutely MUST Look for if You Want a Great Travel Credit Card
In Singapore, we NEED to travel every few months (or weeks) just to keep our sanity in today’s high-stress ...
20 August 2014
Getting Charged for That Unsolicited Credit Card You Never Activated
Have you ever received an unsolicited credit card before? If you have, did you activate it or did you simply ...
22 July 2014
Top 3 Credit Cards That Give Free Travel Insurance
After months of working like a slave, rowing an oar in that galley you call a “workplace,” you’re finally ...
29 November 2013
3 Reasons You Want to Use Visa PayWave
Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. “What the hell? Is MoneySmart being paid by Visa now?” And that wounds ...
12 July 2013
5 Kinds of Credit Card Fraud that Happen in Singapore
Hah! Credit card fraud, that’s easy. All you need’s a store catalogue, a card skimmer, and a street corner. ...
19 June 2013
Credit Cards VS Debit Cards in Singapore
Credit cards give you access to money that isn’t yours. It’s the same as borrowing money, except without ...
9 October 2011