Gabriela Walsh is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance® and a personal finance editor at Red Ventures. Her previous work experience includes various editorial positions at FinanceBuzz. She ...

Credit cards and debit cards look almost exactly alike but are actually quite different. Money you spend or withdraw using a debit card comes straight out of your bank account – you’re spending your ...

Choosing between a credit card and a debit card depends on your financial goals. While debit cards help you spend only what you have, credit cards offer rewards and flexibility. Understanding the ...

Debit cards are now more popular than credit, as you do not need a credit history to have one. All you need is a checking account, or in the case of prepaid, all you need is an email address. They ...

When you’re shopping, and you’ve got everything you were looking for and are at the till, you might just pick a card to pay without much thought. But all cards are not the same. Here we explain how ...

Renting a car can be convenient, but choosing how to pay for it can impact your overall costs. Most rental agencies accept both credit and debit cards, but the financial implications differ. While one ...

If you run your debit card as credit, it will likely delay the money being taken from your checking account by a few days. Choosing credit instead of entering your debit card's PIN can help minimize ...

Our writers and editors used an in-house natural language generation platform to assist with portions of this article, allowing them to focus on adding information that is uniquely helpful. The ...