Originally Posted by
raikje
I believe there was talk of regulation to stop this, but I don't know if it ever came to anything.
Some cards are now changing their order of payments to be more favourable to the customer...
I'm not sure it is a regulation, but I thought the financial ombudsman had told them all to switch to this way of paying off higher rate items first. Pretty sure I got a letter from MBNA saying they were doing this from around July.