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How much do you pay in credit card charges? You must know the approximate amount if you're aware of and can calculate the annual fees, finance fees or penalty fees applied to your account. These are regular charges a customer is obliged to pay for using the credit line. In fact, when you sum up all the fees and interest payments, they emerge into the total cost of your bank card.

A cardholder might be frustrated finding that his charges exceed the expected two times after they return from holidays spent in Europe. This is due to foreign exchange fees, special charges imposed for converting the currency as you make a card purchase abroad. While it might be a small percentage, only 2% of the purchase price, the sum will hit you after a week or two of traveling.

Lots of customers do not know if there is foreign exchange fee applied and if there is - how big it is. Let's find it out.

Not to the banking industry's sorrow evidently, college students are still receiving credit card offers aiming at their meager budget, as it is. But for the really attractive terms, students would not be signing up on such a large scale. Zero rates on purchases, sing-up bonuses and perks, as well as the conformity with the trend keep college card business prospering an enrich colleges, their alumni associations and banks themselves.

Whether a college student should have a plastic card is up to the student, but in general it is not at all bad idea. The catch is how companies market their products and what they promise in the long run.

The survey made by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, revealed some upsetting facts about credit card marketing at campus.

APR, or Annual Percentage Rate, is the figure showing the total cost of a certain credit card application. The lower APR you have, the less interest you pay back to your bank. Traditionally, lowest APR credit cards are designed for good and excellent credit customers and are subject to an increase as a penalty in case the customer is late or delinquent on credit card payments.

A standard credit card charges several types of APRs (on purchases, on balance transfers, on cash advances, etc) and applies a number of related laws, such as the universal default clause or the "any time, for any reason" rates increase. Both the laws play against cardholders and both are undergoing some changes recently.