by Ola Szaran | Dec 1, 2021 | Student Blog
If you’ve done any online shopping recently, especially if you’ve bought items on fashion sites, you’re likely to have seen some new payment options crop up. Lots of these are from Buy Now Pay Later services. It’s important to know what they are and the potential...
by Ola Szaran | Nov 22, 2021 | Student Blog
Ho, ho, ho 🎄 Christmas is upon us once again. Every year, the celebration seems to come around so quickly. The year starts, we blink, and before we know it the Michael Bublé songs are out and Coca Cola is telling us that “holidays are coming”. 🎵 Buying Christmas...
by Ola Szaran | Nov 16, 2021 | Student Blog
The crypto world is a complex one. Its popularity has grown hugely since the start of the pandemic, with some people putting their life savings into cryptocurrency and trying to use it as a “get-rich-quick” scheme. 🤑 But crypto is anything but a guaranteed income....
by Ola Szaran | Nov 8, 2021 | Student Blog
Scams have always been around in one form or another. But since the start of the pandemic, they’ve become more prevalent – and the number of people reporting scam attempts more than doubled in 2020!1 A representative from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau...
by Ola Szaran | Nov 3, 2021 | Student Blog
Standing orders, Direct Debits, recurring card payments. You’ve probably heard of these and you know they all take money out of your account. 🙃 Although they’re all types of regular, automatic payments that help you pay for bills and other commitments – there...
by Ola Szaran | Oct 29, 2021 | Student Blog
What is the National Living Wage? What’s the difference between this and the National Minimum Wage? And how do changes to these rates affect you as a student? 🤷 What is the National Minimum Wage? The National Minimum Wage (NMW) is the minimum hourly wage every...
