FABB Snapshot
“Tweet-ables”: What People are Saying about Banks
(via The Tonight Show’s TwitterTracker)
Twitter users express a number of common feelings towards banks, and after following the word “bank” and other bank-related terms for a few weeks, I thought I’d show you a collection of “tweets” (short messages posted on Twitter) that reflect the sentiments I found.
(Note: This post doesn’t include tweets by banks [...]
FABB Snapshot: No Surprise — Lowest Daily Balances On The Decline
This is the third installment of our look at how the economy has affected peoples’ use of their checking account. In the first post, we reviewed how people are more likely to overdraw their checking account now than a year ago. Last week, we showed how people have begun using ATM card more frequently. This [...]
FABB Snapshot: People Use ATMs More To Manage Through Hard Times
Last week, in our first post about how the economy has affected peoples’ use of their checking accounts, we looked at the growing number of people overdrawing today compared to a year ago. This week, we’ll analyze one of the culprits of overdrawing — ATM withdrawals.
A lot of people are using cash more and credit [...]
FABB Snapshot: Overdrawing Accounts Rises As Economy Worsens
FindABetterBank (FABB) has been live since February 1, 2008. We thought it would be interesting to see how consumers’ banking behavior, feature preferences and checking account choices have changed over the last year. This analysis will be presented as a series on how the economy has affected consumers’ banking behavior.
More people are overdrawing their checking [...]