New E-Finance Options For All
Every 6 months, people from the online finance world gather at the Finovate conference to display, discuss, and dissect different financial technology startup companies and their products. These products run the gamut from “white-labeled” online banking and fraud prevention for banks and businesses (for example, Springboard by Wesabe and Silver Tail) to at-home PIN-style security [...]
Fee Watch!: Be Wary of the BOGUS Bonus
Standard Account Options on Golden Pedestals
Many banks today advertise ‘bonus options’ for their accounts that are already industry standard. If you’ve been the customer of only one bank for sometime, you may not know that other banks already offer account features that advertise as ‘new and free!’ or ‘coming soon!’ Here’s a list of features [...]
Unemployment Benefits Get Tricky with Debit Cards
To save government money, banks in 30 states no longer mail paper checks and work with banks to offer recipients of unemployment benefits their alternative: check cards.
But the cost of processing these unique payments seems to be passed along to the unemployed, as extra bank fees apply to these cards in complicated ways.
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Fee Watch! – PIN Fees
All companies evolve and change to meet the needs of their customers, and banks are no different. While some features run at cost to the bank, it makes no sense today why customers should be charged for them. Over the next few weeks, we’ll go over some fees that still lurk around in the dark [...]