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Alliant Downgrades Website, Slows Access
The new Alliant website is excrutiatingly slow and requires more effort to accomplish the same tasks. Juvenile appearance with a lot of wasted space. Thanks so much Alliant program... read more
What's Going On Today (11/25) At Syncrony?
I receive 2 emails this morning allegedly from Syncrony that "2 micro deposits have been received". Odd because I did not initiate any transaction. This afternoon I received anothe... read more
CNBC's Ridiculous Report On Aspiration
Article at https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/21/dicaprio-backed-digital-bank-aspiration-has-run-into-funding-issue.html
Do they just not use the banks they write about or is this poor ... read more
List Of Consumer Reporting Companies (Way Beyond The Big 3)
CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU | 2019
List of Consumer Reporting Companies
Amazing list provided by the CFPB of monitoring companies you never knew existed.
https://www.con... read more
First Advantage Bank Merging With Reliant Bank (TN)
According to the First Advantage Bank home page, the bank is merging with Reliant Bank (TN). Seems that only the Reliant name will hold after the merger:
https://www.reliantbank.c... read more
Interet Rate Very Low - My Area
Be sure you check the interest rate for your own area. --- even with an extremely large deposit --- the maximum interest rate for Houston area is only 1.24 - substantially less tha... read more
Credit Unions VS Banks
Probably Nonsense but ...
Almost all the the better CD deals lately are from Credit Unions and the majority of lowered rates are from Banks. Does this pattern mean anything or is t... read more
FAQ's About Online Savings Account
https://firstfoundationinc.com/personal-banking/bank/online-savings
Due to an overwhelmingly positive response to this account, our team is currently catching up to the volume of ... read more
Vio Bank Savings Drops Further To 2.07%
I suppose it was inevitable but Vio Bank keeps dropping their yield. I will need to find some other place to move the money in my Northern Bank Direct account when their rate guara... read more
Trying To Resist Jumping Ship
For most of my working career I have been in IRA CD's , mostly because of NAFTA. In this area companies open and close to only go to Mexico, Malaysia etc etc within 5 years; so I e... read more
And Yet Another Drop
Followed the Fed with their own .25% drop to 1.9%. Savers get punished once again. Oh thats right there is no inflation. Uh huh.... read more
Medicare Now Providing For Paying Premium Online With Credit Card
Medicare is now finally accepting payment online using a credit card, and no fee for doing so. Until now, if you wanted to pay with your credit card, you had to mail in the payment... read more
Catch: 2.40% On "NEW MONEY ONLY"
2.40% Online Savings Account on New Money Only
"NEW MONEY ONLY" is the downfall of what otherwise sounds like a pretty good bank..... read more
Cost To Join Zoo
Just called about zoo membership to qualify for out of area. Was told by zoo membership department that cost for one year San Diego Zoo dual membership is $350. Lesser following ye... read more
Savings Account
I have a question about savings. I know that you can only withdraw 6 per month, but is there a dollar amount that you can withdraw?... read more
Pulling My Money Out Of Here
I am pulling my money out of this fast. You'll saw what happened with Chime this week, my buddies could not use Chime account for a week due to Chime gateway processor being hacked... read more
Brink's Prepaid Mastercard Debit Card Offer 5% APY Savings Account
I was just watching a commercial on TV for Brink's Prepard Mastercard debit card, and it says you can get a 5% savings account with it. I have confirmed that at the Brink's Money W... read more
California To Open "Local Banks"
California just passed a law to allow local communities to open their own banks. Details are sketchy but it sounds like it's in response to the need for banks to handle marijuana m... read more
CIT And Popular Direct Access Both Down
At the exact same time as of 5 ET. The 2 companies also happen to use the exact same software. This is quite troubling. Its always great posting my interest on the first so they be... read more
CO 360 Money Market Beneficiaries Now Allowed!
I was looking over some of the options on my CO 360 MM account that I recently opened to get the $500 bonus, and I noticed that they have now added a link to add beneficiaries. I c... read more