Buy Now Pay Later - April 12th What is Humm and How Does it Work? Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is currently the hottest thing in retail. And Kiwi consumers are flocking in their bargain-hunting droves to the offer of interest-free, instalment-based payment schemes. Among this new breed of BNPL …
Credit Cards - March 26th What’s the Difference Between Visa & MasterCard? Co author: Nicole Barratt Credit cards are an everyday feature of finance, and Kiwis are big fans. Between February 2020-2021, we spent over $42bn on our credit cards here in NZ – that's around $8500 per …
Credit Cards - March 17th Lowest Rate Balance Transfer Credit Cards These days banks are competing harder and harder to gain your business which, in the credit cards space, means there are some great balance transfer credit card deals on offer. At the moment, the Cooperative …
Credit Cards - March 17th What is the Gem Visa Credit Card? Here at Canstar, we spend a lot of time analysing, comparing and rating different types of credit cards. We look at all the big players and the range of different types of cards on the …
Credit Cards - March 8th Guide to Avoiding Hefty Credit Card Fees There are plenty of ways you can get slammed with credit card fees when using your plastic. High interest charges, annual fees, late payment fees, they all add up! But no matter what kind of …
Credit Cards - March 1st No Annual Fee or Low Interest Credit Cards: What’s Better? Credit cards can be a lot to get your head around if they’re unfamiliar territory for you. And there are certainly plenty on the market to choose from. Maybe you’re tossing up between a card …
Credit Cards - February 23rd How to Improve Your Credit Rating: 7 Steps What helps to improve your credit rating? It’s a good idea to understand and know how to improve your own credit rating, and put this knowledge into practice. Some of the ways you can help improve …
Credit Card Rewards - January 25th Kiwibank is Canstar’s Bank of the Year | Credit Cards 2021 Bank of the Year | Credit Cards Congratulations to Kiwibank, the winner of Canstar's latest award for Bank of the Year | Credit Cards. Kiwibank, which is 100% NZ owned, has challenged the might of the …
Credit Cards - January 25th How to Keep on Top of Your Credit Card Credit cards are certainly handy tools. There are plenty of advantages of having plastic in your wallet if you manage your credit card properly. If you’re disciplined with your spending and pay off your card …
Credit Cards - January 13th What is a Product Disclosure Statement? What’s the point of a PDS? A product disclosure statement (PDS) tells you all the key information you need to know about a financial product. Financial services firms, such as insurance companies, banks, Kiwisaver providers and …
