Ah, the dining card. The card which imbues us with a sudden sense of generosity when it comes to paying the bill ("oh let me get this one guys! just ibank me the money, no problem"- me at every social function, which is why I don't get invited to...
Each year the Banks will roll out different promotions around Christmas which aim to get people to put their big ticket purchases on their cards. Some of these are great. Others are more like coal in your stocking.
In general I'm not a big fan of these promotions, because whatever...
The Milelion is running a new series that aims to profile every credit card available in Singapore. Each week we will cover a different bank. The appendix below will be updated weekly with hyperlinks as more banks are added, allowing you to navigate between weeks seamlessly
Week 1- OCBC
Week 2-...
December is a good time to review credit card strategies for the new year. What I've come to realise is that although some cards may individually be the best to use in a particular category, when you view your miles earning strategy overall they may not fit in very...
I think it's only responsible to say upfront that if you're a student and not drawing any income, you need to be extra careful about your spending patterns. It's great to earn miles with credit cards and jet off around the world for free, but you owe it to...
Until 30 Sept, the DBS Altitude AMEX card had a very generous 50% bonus miles promotion. Upon card approval, you would earn 1.8 miles for local spend, 3 miles for overseas spend and 4.5 miles for online hotel and flight bookings for the first 6 months (as opposed to...
I've received a few questions about whether this whole miles game is going to have an adverse impact on your credit score, and I'd like to address it here.
Short answer: No
Long answer: No, but
I'm going to quote wholesale from Moneysmart here
While a new credit card does actually affect your...
Because banks earn a nice profit on all your foreign spend (nowhere as bad as that scammy DCC but still a good margin), they tend to offer lucrative overseas spend bonuses to entice you to use your plastic overseas.
For example, DBS Altitude offers 2 miles per $1 on overseas spend (Potentially...