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Adele Eliseo

Adele Eliseo

Australian business professional

Sep 22, 2026

6:39
And have we seen any kind of particular players, credit card providers changing their offers up so far or has it been a handful and you might expect more to come in, I guess, the weeks before the surcharge ban is implemented and then even afterwards?
6:56
So what we've mainly seen to date is changes to the ongoing proposition of the cards.
7:01
So looking at the fabric of the earn rate, we've seen some annual fees increase for CommBank quite substantially because they've gone from zero monthly fee for a lot of their customers through to an almost unavoidable annual fee that is being applied.
7:16
We've also seen a few of the banks creep up their interest rates.
7:20
Now, obviously, if you have a rewards card, it's really important not to pay interest because you don't want to be subsidising your points with interest that can really cancel out the benefit.
7:31
We've also seen some banks take a razor to the type of insurances that are offered with cards.
7:37
Now, these are quite popular products and are And soon some of these cards won't have travel insurance.
8:22
So For anyone who currently has a credit card that they've been using to earn frequent flyer or rewards points, is there anything that you'd recommend them doing right now?

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