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  1. Boost Your Spending Power with Perpay

    Boost Your Spending Power with Perpay

    Perpay offers a flexible, interest-free way to purchase items from top brands with no hard credit checks, making it ideal for holiday shopping without financial strain. It also provides a credit-building opportunity, allowing users to boost their credit score through consistent, manageable payments directly from their paycheck.

  2. 11 Ways To Spring Clean Your Wallet

    11 Ways To Spring Clean Your Wallet

    Spring clean more than just your home this year. CreditSoup has your guide to a financial spring cleaning that will leave your wallet feeling fresh and ready to take on the year with these 11 financial tips!

  3. Beginners Guide to Your Credit Score

    Beginners Guide to Your Credit Score

    What exactly is a Credit Score? CreditSoup breaks it down here. A credit score is a prediction of your credit behavior, such as how likely you are to pay a loan back on time, based on information from your credit reports.

  4. Joint Finances: How Sharing Money Can Bring Couples Closer

    Joint Finances: How Sharing Money Can Bring Couples Closer

    There’s a reason the divorce rate hovers around 40 to 50 percent at any given time. Marriage is hard, and it often comes with issues you can’t foresee. You marry “in sickness and in health” and “for rich or for poor,” but that doesn’t mean you actually expect the worst-case scenario to happen. And when life gives you lemons, divorce is often the easiest way out.

  5. Build your Credit with Self.

    Build your Credit with Self.

    Managing finances shouldn’t be difficult, the secured Self Visa® Credit Card** can help you build credit responsibly while also preparing for the future! Here is a closer look into the Self- Credit Builder Account* + Self Visa® Credit Card**.

  6. Secured Credit Card Season

    Secured Credit Card Season

    Secured cards can be a good option if you have less-than-perfect credit and are looking to build your credit. They can also pave the way for you to access other credit/financial products like mortgages and loans. There are several secured card options out there, find the one that best fits your needs.

  7. 6 Ways to Build Your Credit History

    6 Ways to Build Your Credit History

    When I graduated from college, apartment shopping was a nightmare. I had a good job, a decent entry-level salary and I was only looking for a small studio, yet I couldn’t get approved on my own. Because I had been starkly anti-debt and never had a credit card or car loan, I had something worse than a low credit score - I had no credit at all.

  8. 5 Money Lessons Your Teenager Can Learn with a Credit Card

    5 Money Lessons Your Teenager Can Learn with a Credit Card

    While there are many ways to learn life’s important lessons, one of the best ways to learn is by doing – or through old fashioned trial and error. You can tell your kids how to fish, but they’ll become better fisherman by baiting their own lines and strategizing ways to get fish to bite.


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