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Nationwide forced to defend £50 takeover reward (Daily Mail)

By James Sherwin-SmithPosted on 17 March 2025

My thanks to Patrick Tooher and Jane Denton for writing this article for the Daily Mail (online edition: This is Money). It follows a longer post I wrote about the “Big Thank You” payment: The Big Nationwide “Thank You”: £50 for what and why? You can read the article in full here: Nationwide forced to […]

Nationwide accused of ‘rampant profiteering’ (Daily Mail)

By James Sherwin-SmithPosted on 6 March 2025

My thanks to Simon English, who wrote this article in the Daily Mail (online edition: This is Money) examining the recent increase in members’ credit card interest rates. “Rampant profiteering” had to be justified – see my detailed research here into the history of credit card offers and rates in this article: Is Nationwide becoming […]