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Similarly, my MBNA mastercard charges $7.50 plus 20% interest for lottery purchases. It made the purchase of $10 in lottery tickets as stocking stuffers sting a bit. A way of avoiding this would be to buy lottery tickets with your credit card at the gas station when getting your gas and paying inside. The bank also agreed to pay $400,000 to nonprofit groups that counsel and help families hurt by gambling additions. Citibank previously resisted pressure to block gambling charges, even though other major credit card issuers had done so, including Bank of America, Fleet, Direct Merchants Bank, MBNA, and Chase Manhattan Bank. There are no MasterCard gambling restrictions with online casinos. If you have encountered any fees when using the card elsewhere online, this could be that the provider charges for transactions, something that is out of the hands of online casinos. Personal loans: for personal (unsecured) loans, MBNA Limited: Works exclusively with Lloyds Bank plc. Is a credit broker and not the lender. MBNA is a trading style of Lloyds Bank plc. Lloyds Bank plc Registered Office, 25 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7HN. Registered in England and Wales number 2065. Gambling transactions (e.g. Payments made at places such as casinos, betting outlets, share trading companies and National Lottery tickets are treated as gambling transactions and attract a cash advance fee). More about credit card fees and charges.

^† This Promotional Rate applies to any balance transfers made within 90 day(s) of your account opening (each, an 'eligible transaction') and will remain in effect for 10 Statement Periods from the transaction date of each eligible transaction. The Promotional Rate will increase and the remaining balance of the eligible transaction will become subject to the Standard Rate for balance transfers either: (1) on the first day of the first Statement Period that occurs after the expiry of the Promotional Rate; or (2) on the first day of the second Statement Period following any late Minimum Payment.

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Gambling for HSBC credit card holders will become more expensive

HSBC has become the latest bank to charge more for gambling transactions processed on its credit cards.

From 1 February its customers will be charged the cash advance rate rather than the normal purchase rate.

That means they will immediately pay interest at between 21.9% and 27.8% instead of between 15.9% and 22.9%.

However, customers will not be charged a one-off fee, which is applied to other cash transactions such as buying foreign currency.

Double deck blackjack counting strategy. 'This is one of a number of changes we have made to our credit card offering recently to bring us in line with the competition,' an HSBC spokeswoman said.

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Varying policies

There is no uniform policy on charging for gambling across the UK credit card industry.

Barclaycard and Lloyds charge such spending at their lower purchase rates.

But MBNA and RBS/NatWest and Egg charge at the cash advance rate.

In 2004, the US bank Citibank decided to stop processing any internet gambling payments at all by UK holders of its credit cards.

It said at the time this was partly an anti-fraud measure and warned that online gambling might lead to some customers running up unmanageable debts.

One potential loophole in HSBC's strategy is that any payments channelled via the online payment service Paypal will be charged as a retail purchase, attracting a lower rate of interest.

HSBC said neither it nor any other banks could tell what the ultimate destination of a Paypal transaction money might be.

Bad risk?

In the past year all the main banks have complained loudly that they have been racking up more bad loans in their credit card businesses.

Normally a decision by a bank to charge more would signify that it had seen an increased risk of losing money in that particular line of business.

But HSBC denied that customers who gamble using their credit cards are more likely to run up big debts and then default on them.

'We have not seen that as part of our customers' behaviour,' said the HSBC spokeswoman.

HSBC's decision will apply to both internet and telephone gambling and thus covers online poker, internet bookies and betting exchanges.

However, it is illegal to use a credit card in a casino, while the betting industry has a policy of not accepting them in High Street bookies.

According to the Association of Payment Clearing Services (Apacs), people in the UK spent £1.51bn on gambling via their credit cards in the twelve months to June 2006.

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That was just 0.8% of all credit card spending which amounted to £120.2bn.