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Britons cutting back on holiday spending

An article about Britons cutting back on holiday spending on AOL Money has featured FairFX.

Similar stories were also featured in the London Stock Exchange, My Finances, Money Extra and Easier Finance.

Friday 02 May 2008, 01:59pm

Tags: feeling the pinch, holiday, money tips, opodo, press mentions, recession

Cash machine and credit-card charges incurred abroad as much as £1.8 billion a year

An article on the Channel 4 News website has highlighted that Britons are having to fork out as much as £1.8 billion a year in cash machine and credit-card charges incurred abroad.

Our chief executive Stephen Heath said: "Travellers get hit every way they turn when spending abroad.

"Either they have to rely on carrying unwieldy and unsecured amounts of cash, suffer punitive charges for withdrawing cash from ATMs (automatic teller machines) or use a debit or credit card which not only inflicts more hefty charges but also subjects them to a growing risk of fraud."

Monday 26 November 2007, 05:06pm

Tags: abroad, ATM, cash abroad, consumers, feeling the pinch, opodo, press mentions

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