Archive for April, 2009
“Spending Time”: Online Money Management, Currently
What’s new in the online financial world?
Still not sure if you want to use an online money management tool? Maybe a friend has mentioned Mint.com, but you want to know more before you get into it. Here are a few links to help you know “what’s up” in the OMMT world and help you decide [...]
FYI: Why do banks offer online billpay for free?
Did you ever wonder why banks let you use online billpay for free? After all, it’s not free for them – they pay companies like CheckFree and Metavante big bucks so they can offer you free online billpay services. Are you worth it? Clearly, the banking industry is convinced you are — almost all [...]
New FindABetterBank Homepage & Checking Account Summary Tool
NEW YORK – April 16 — It is a day of excitement around FABB (and not just because tax season is over). Last week, we changed our homepage to include the blog, a tutorial video on how to use FABB, and a stellar graphic that shows in a nutshell how FindABetterBank works. Today, we’ve added [...]
Fee Watch!: Beating the Overdraft Fees
How to Beat The Bank, a “cut-down” version of Overdrawn! by Karney Hatch.
(via Paul Michael at WiseBread.)
Not only does Karney paint a great picture of the problem with overdraft fees in today’s banking system, but he also demonstrates how a little bit of push-back by you, the account holder, can make a difference.
We’ve seen this [...]
Link Round-Up: Earn Some Financial Know-How
April is national financial literacy month, and we hope that we’re doing our part to help you understand one particular part of your financial life–your checking account. We’ve added an important segment to this blog– “Checking Accounts – Everything You Need To Know,” (see the tab above!). It’s a pretty ambitiously titled segment (and [...]