Sometimes reboots work and give you gems like Chris Nolan's Batman series (let's pretend the third movie doesn't exist). Othertimes, reboots take a beloved piece of work like Total Recall and totally Colin Farell it.
Singapore Airlines and AMEX have taken out full page ads in today's papers to proudly...
I got a text this morning that made me worried
First rule of the miles and points game. "Enhancement" is always a bad thing. I wonder why airlines/hotels/credit card companies continue to use that term, given that it's been so widely abused it's used sardonically by the frequent flyer community.
So,...
Zaobao Finance has published an article on miles-earning credit cards featuring The Milelion (English version here).
Last week I had a lovely chat with 陈劲禾, the reporter who wrote the article. We covered a lot of questions that first-timers to the miles game might ask. Obviously, because of space constraints (and my tedious wordiness) it...
Maybe I'm just not very observant and this has always been around, but I was at Raffles City a couple of days ago and just noticed this in the carpark
I never knew we could use credit cards to top up our Ezlink card on an ad-hoc basis. The sign...
With tax season upon us, some people are wondering whether they should use their credit card to pay their income tax bill. To my knowledge, only HSBC, ANZ and Standard Chartered offer a special scheme which allows you to pay your tax bill via a credit card in order to earn rewards...
I've mocked the Krisflyer Ascend card in the past as the best card you'll never use. This was back when they were offering a 1st year annual fee waiver option that allowed you to get the card for free and enjoy things like a 1 night free stay at...
This shouldn't raise any undue alarm bells but I thought you should know that from 1 June 2016 DBS has revised the earning rate on the DBS Altitude card.
The new earn rates are as follows
Online flight and hotel transactions
Overseas Spend (foreign currency)
Local Spend
3 miles
(Capped at S$5,000 per month)
2 miles
1.2...
The UOB YOLO Card is what happens when you let marketing groupthink run amok. "Hey guys, let's create a new offering for the millennial group. And let's call it yolo because millennials."
As someone who falls into the "millennial" category, I am constantly bemused as to what marketers think about my behavior....