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Citibank has a HHonors points transfer bonus, should you partake?

Citibank, which recently revamped its rewards portal, is having a transfer promotion for Hilton HHonors from now till Jan 17th. Limited Time Offer: Enjoy 2 Hilton HHonors™ Points for each Citi PremierMile you transfer by January 17th. That is 0.5 Hilton HHonors Points in addition to the base redemption rate...

Earn double miles with the new DBS Altitude AMEX sign up promo

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...

Free one-way car rentals. Really.

I've spoken before about how much I enjoy driving holidays, and the best kind of driving holiday is when you see most of the country by road. Land at one airport, get a car, drive for a week, return it at another airport and fly out from there. The main...

Credit cards and your credit score

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...

UOB’s 5 miles per $1 promotion sounds exciting but really isn’t

So UOB sent out a mailer to all its PRVI cardholders informing them of a promotion where card members can earn 5 miles per $1 spent between 23 Oct and 31 Dec. Registration is required. This sounds amazing, but really isn't. A minimum spending of $1,000 on overseas shopping and...

Revisiting the Krisflyer Star Alliance Partner Chart

EDIT: Revised guidance to this article now exists. Please refer to this article for the latest version. I said before that it doesn't make sense to redeem Krisflyer miles for Star Alliance partner awards. That still holds true. Krisflyer's partner chart is structured in such a way that the greatest...

When is overseas spend not overseas?

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...

So, about that $70 of free fuel

I wrote a previous article about how DBS was giving away free money with its Esso card for new signups. Basically, it was advertised that you'd get $70 in fuel vouchers when you signed up for the card. The vouchers have come in the mail and they're not exactly what...

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