News

535 items found, showing page 36 of 45

Card Payment

GoCompare partners with Featurespace to strengthen fraud detection and prevention

 New capabilities prevent fraudulent use, while ensuring a frictionless customer experience

Phone Driving

BMW drivers named most dangerous on UK roads

New research from GoCompare Car Insurance reveals BMW drivers are the most likely to speed, run a red light or make an at fault claim.

Shoppers

£143m* worth of unwanted gifts to be returned this Christmas

  • Only 69% of returns are successful;
  • More than 4 million people returned an unwanted Christmas gift last year;
  • The average value of unwanted gifts last year was £35.10;
  • 7% of people say they had a problem returning a gift that was purchased online.
Jackson Hull

GoCompare partners with Money Dashboard to strengthen ‘Machine Learning for Fintech’ – a community-driven machine learning initiative for fintechs

Today (6th December 2018), at the Global Open Banking Summit, GoCompare has announced a strategic partnership with Edinburgh-based Money Dashboard as part of its fintech community development project, Machine Learning for Fintech (ML4Fintech)

 

Shoppers

LOST Christmas: 6.7 million* Brits lose out on gift cards

GoCompare Money urges shoppers to check expiry dates on any gift cards received this Christmas and use them as soon as possible

Christmas Spending

£20bn festive bill - UK households will spend an average of £719 celebrating Christmas

One in ten will put the whole cost of Christmas on their credit card

GoFurther Candidates

First students start GoCompare’s flagship degree-apprenticeship programme

Local students will receive a job and a coveted degree with no student fee debt

Traffic

Gaining traction? A quarter of drivers call for dash cams to be compulsory

  • 25% of people think dashboard cameras should compulsory in cars;
  • Nearly a third (32%) think dash cams should be a standard fitting in all new cars;
  • GoCompare warns drivers to look beyond the dash cam discount from insurers and check the policy small print.
Thermostat

Government’s energy price cap will keep four million households on a bad deal

Energy auto-switching service weflip reminds people that the cap is neither a guarantee or a good deal

Shoppers

UK households planning £4.5 billion* spending spree in Black Friday sales

  • Households intend to spend on average £165 in this year’s sales – a 53% increase on 2017’s planned spend;
  • Clothing and accessories, toys and games and small electrical items top list of sought-after sales items;
  • Mobile shopping boom – the number of people shopping on their smartphones will double this Black Friday (17% compared to 9% in 2017);