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Chase Is Again Offering $500 For A Checking With Direct Deposit And Savings Account.
Received another piece of mail today. Watch your mail or give them a call if you are interested and see what happens. ... read more
A Visa, Mastercard Or Amex Gift Card That Can Be Password Protected.
Is there a Visa or AmEx type GC (gift card) that can be password protected. AmEx Travelers Checks worked very well, in the past. Because a merchant could compare the signatures. ... read more
Chase is migrating its credit cards from MasterCard to VISA
If you have a Chase MasterCard (for example, Chase Freedom), look for a chip-and-PIN VISA card in your mailbox soon. All Chase MasterCards will be deactivated by mid-January ... read more
Problem With RCA And CD Rate Tables When Filtering
Ken, when I tried to filter the RCA rate table to be certain to include all credit unions, I received a msg "Displaying 1-0 of 0 results". If I do no filtering at all, it dis... read more
CD Information
Ken: I have a suggestion that might make your collection of CD information a little easier to access. In my experience, the most important pieces of information for a C... read more
CD Summary Gone Missing
I haven't seen the CD summary in two weeks now. The last CD summary I can find was on 8/19. Has it been eliminated again? ... read more
Viewing CD Rates
for me it seems i cant pick anything. Its stuck on 1 yr CD / Local.... read more
Chase Freedom Rolling Out New Credit Cards With Embedded Chips
Received notice recently that my Chase Freedom Mastercard will be changing to Chase Freedom Visa and the new cards will now have an embedded chip. Actually received may ... read more
Banks, Fearing High Tech 1929, Seek Cyber War Council
The Securities Industry and Financial Market Association, Wall Street's biggest trade group, is calling for a major cyber war council to stave off what they seem to think are inevi... read more
Penfed Visa Cash Rewards Card
Interesting tidbit I discovered this evening about my card. Let me say at the beginning I do like my card and will continue to use it. Mine is the one that offers 5% cash back each... read more
Paying Bills In Public
I had a new experience this morning that concerns me. I had a bill to pay so I wrote out my check and was going to mail it but was concerned it would arrive late. I wen... read more
Naming Beneficiaries On POD Accounts -- SS Not Required!
A comment about the small minority of banks and credit unions that require you to provide the Social Security number of beneficiaries on a POD account:
Over the years, on rare... read more
Bank Accounts Missing From Rates Tables
Ken, I'm noticing at least a couple account offerings that are missing from the CD Rates tables. I notice in particular two from the 2-year tables, although who knows how many othe... read more
Pentagon Federal
Rates have been lowered again.... read more
Navy Federal Credit Union Minimums
Please disregard post. My misunderstanding of how DA site works.... read more
DD Site Issues Solved For Me
I have read emails that other were having DD site issues. I never had any problems until yesterday. I cleared all my computer cookies and the site is working perfectly. T... read more
Social Security Halts Effort To Collect Old Debts
WASHINGTON -- The Social Security Administration is suspending a program in which thousands of people were having their tax refunds seized to recoup overpayments that happene... read more
BofA BillPay (BP) Problems
Site down: Most likely heartbleed related. Of course they claim that BP enhancement is being conducted; sure whatever.... read more
Savings And Loan Figure Charles Keating Dies At 90
"Charles H. Keating Jr., the notorious financier who served prison time and was disgraced for his role in the costliest savings and loan failure of the 1980s, has died. He was ... read more
Walmart Sues Visa For $5 Bn For Rigging Card Fees
"The world's largest retailer Walmart has sued credit card giant Visa for more than $5 billion for conspiring with banks to fix fees that merchants pay for accepting Visa card ... read more