News in brief: New £50 Hilton cashback deal launched with American Express A new Hilton cashback offer has appeared on a lot of American Express accounts. To see if you are targetted, visit the Amex website and take a look under the ‘Offers’ tab on the online statement page […]
Curve Card
Curve Card is a free and innovative debit card which links to your existing Mastercard and Visa credit cards. Pay on your Curve debit card and your purchase is recharged to your linked credit card - but with no FX fees. It also works where credit cards are not accepted but debit cards are taken.
Curve Card will pay you for £5 for trying it out so you have nothing to risk. It works with Apple Pay and Google Pay too, and the premium metal is a funky metal card.
Our main article on how Curve works can be found here.
Bits: Get £50 Hilton cashback with American Express, Curve adds Apple Pay, BA’s 787-10 delayed
29 January 2020 By 144 Comments
How to earn miles on your January tax bill via debit card (Tesco), Amex (Billhop), Curve, Miles & More or Revolut
23 January 2020 By
When HMRC stopped accepting personal credit cards for tax payments in January 2018, it was a blow for many HFP readers who used the Inland Revenue to rack up a substantial number of miles and points. Even a relatively small business like Head for Points […]
Time is running out (4 days left) to pay your tax bill with your Curve Card
20 January 2020 By
If you have any self-assessment income tax to pay by 31st January, or any VAT to pay in early February, don’t forget that the last day to make HMRC payments for free with a Curve Card is 23rd January. Unless you have Curve Metal, a […]
Curve Card to add 1.5% fee for HMRC payments – unless you upgrade to Curve Metal
24 November 2019 By
SUNDAY EDIT: On Sunday evening, Curve put details of these changes back on its website, with two changes: for new cardholders from Monday 25th November, these new policies apply immediately. Existing cardholders will not switch to the new rules until 24th January (not 21st as […]
Why you should get a FREE Curve Card to maximise your miles and points from credit cards
26 October 2019 By
The newsflow from Curve Card has gone a little quiet of late, but the company dropped users an email this week to promote a huge advertising campaign on London Underground which is about to launch. (They just raised $60m in new funding and need to […]
Curve Card raises $55m of new funding
18 July 2019 By
Curve Card holders will be interested to hear that Curve has just completed a $55m funding round. This is a substantial step-up on the $10m raised in the previous round and shows that, despite the chaos caused by their very public split with American Express, […]
Curve adds 1% cashback to its cards – double-dip with your existing Visa and Mastercard rewards!
15 June 2019 By
Curve Card, the ‘all your cards [unless they are Amex] on one card’ card, has just launched its new rewards program, called Curve Cash. As a reminder, Curve offers to consolidate your entire card portfolio into one card, letting you pay with a Curve Card […]
Why you should get a FREE Curve Card to maximise your miles and points from credit cards
5 June 2019 By
Curve Card is an intriguing payment product which has a LOT to offer to miles and points collectors. Whilst this introductory article is a little complex at times, the key thing to remember is that Curve Card is free – in fact, they pay you […]
Curve adds support for the Miles & More Mastercard
4 June 2019 By
Curve Card has added support for the Lufthansa Miles & More Mastercard. As we covered in depth in our launch articles on the Miles & More charge cards, the Mastercard element is actually a prepaid Mastercard. This makes no difference in how you use it […]
Curve Card launches legal action against American Express
26 March 2019 By
According to an article in The Daily Telegraph yesterday, Curve Card is going through with its threat to sue American Express for withdrawing its support in January with no notice. The report says that Curve is seeking damages for the ‘millions of pounds’ spent on […]
Barclaycard blocking statement payments via Curve or ewallets
4 March 2019 By
If you have a credit card issued by Barclaycard, which would include the ‘closed to new applicants’ Hilton Honors card, you should have received a letter last week. Barclays is now stopping you paying your credit card bill with Curve or any other ewallet which […]
Curve’s version of what happened with American Express
31 January 2019 By
Following on from our coverage of Curve and its split with American Express, the blog post below was published on the Curve website on Thursday morning. As few of you will find it there by chance, I thought I would reproduce it here. I have […]
BREAKING: Amex suspends its relationship with Curve Card, just 36 hours after functionality launched
30 January 2019 By
(EDIT: Curve has now published a lengthy blog post explaining how the split with American Express occurred. I copied it into a separate article here.) Here’s something I didn’t see coming. After launching with much fanfare on Monday, American Express suspended its relationship with Curve […]
Curve relaunches – charge ANY debit or credit card payment to your American Express (Part 1)
28 January 2019 By
(UPDATE: American Express withdrew from Curve shortly after this article was published! Unless you want to read this article for a history lesson, I suggest that you click here to read this article instead which explains how Curve currently operates, without American Express.) Curve Card […]
Curve relaunches – charge ANY debit or credit card payment to your American Express (Part 2)
28 January 2019 By
(EDIT: A couple of days after this article ran, American Express withdrew from Curve. This article is now only useful as a history lesson. Our most recent introductory article on Curve, reflecting the split with Amex, is here.) This is Part 2 of my article […]
Curve is now live with Amex for beta testers – this is how it works
26 November 2018 By
(EDIT: Curve has changed a lot since this article was published. Please do not rely on the information here. Instead, please click here to read our detailed 2019 Curve review, which includes a promo code for a free £5 credit when you sign up.) Curve […]
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