Some of the worst-offending cards are those targeted to borrowers with weak credit, the most vulnerable group.
An executive spokeswoman said its central heating programme focused on older people because evidence showed they were the most vulnerable group.
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How countries treat one particularly vulnerable group is a good measure of how they will act towards the rest of their citizens.
The sluggish economic recovery has stimulated negativity and hesitation around the consumer discretionary sector but analysts are remaining bullish on the vulnerable group's earnings this season.
"It is high time the UKBA recognised asylum-seeking women as being a particularly vulnerable group with complex needs, and urgently ensure their policies reflect this, " said Maternity Action director Rosalind Bragg.
"Unfortunately George Osborne, partly perhaps because of the unmannerly squabbling within the coalition, seems to me to have.... hurt a vulnerable group of the elderly, " he wrote in his Daily Telegraph blog.
Also the demographic group which would be most vulnerable - the old - are also a key target group for both campaigns.
Alyas Karmani, director of Street - a Bradford-based group working with vulnerable young people - told the Home Affairs Committee young Asian girls were more vulnerable to groomers because "they are unlikely to talk about it".
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When people go to a group, they feel very vulnerable, more vulnerable than they already feel.
Other areas of focus in the group's campaign are vulnerable people, small businesses, the environment and to "open up decision making".
Education expert and former teacher Chris Waterman says it is a fact of life that the youngest in any group will be the most vulnerable.
This group is believed to be particularly vulnerable to a Republican onslaught.
The group said the move would put vulnerable women at greater risk of abuse, and raise the threat of crime and disorder in the city.
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Analysts said the group is now looking even more vulnerable to a takeover bid, which could involve the break-up of the pub and hotel divisions.
She has also been the chief executive of the Nurture Group Network, which supports work with vulnerable children.
Ben Uglow of Robert Fleming, a stockbroker, points out that the group's cement business may be vulnerable to cheap Asian imports, because its main markets are close to Brazil's coastal ports.
They had been flattered by my apparent invite into a small group, and the revelation seemed to bother them more than the fact that joining the Group had made them and their friends vulnerable.
But most of those sites still remain vulnerable to SQL injection--meaning the same group of hackers or a copycat group could use similar techniques to redirect the sites' visitors to another server hosting malicious software, Danchev argues.
Phillip Haynes works for a group called "Supporting Communities" which helps vulnerable youths in Nottingham.
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However, one legal group said such a change would leave victims vulnerable.
But campaign group Care Not Killing said the current law existed to protect vulnerable people.
The girls expressed their fears about needing to be seen with fashionable clothes and gadgets - making them feel bad about themselves and making them feel vulnerable to bullies if they were unable to keep up with their peer group.
The working group argues a currency union between Edinburgh and London would not be vulnerable to the problems that have beset the eurozone.
On top of this, the fact that a relatively small group of people are actually sharing files makes Gnutella and similar systems more vulnerable to legal attacks than is generally assumed.
Mr Mayo was seen by City analysts as the brains behind Marconi's transformation from a diversified group into a firm focused on telecoms, a change which left the company worryingly vulnerable to the downturn in technology markets.
The German research group is now working on defences against the attack that ensures encryption keys are never put in vulnerable memory chips.
According to the group's website, volunteers patrol the street at weekends offering help to people who are "vulnerable or in difficulty".
They are also working with medical epidemiologists, using focus-group data among teens to analyze dating behavior and father-daughter relationships to see who is most vulnerable to sexually transmitted disease.
But now those firms are more broadly vulnerable to both regulation and litigation when any local member firm, now part of a large cross-border group, screws up an audit.
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