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Homeownership is woven into the fabric of the American dream, but the process can seem daunting to first-time homebuyers. 

I do expect more rate cuts this year. POTUS is pressuring for it. Last year 3 rate cuts even thiugh was not needed. This is a election year. The stock market read more

Once upon a time, high school students learned checking account and check writing basics in Home Economics class. Now we're in a brave new world of online banking read more

Banking is in a rough spot right now and community banks in particular face a host of daunting challenges. Often saddled with legacy technology, they must compete read more

An Upstate New York credit union paid $20 million to its more than 366,000 members Friday as special dividends as it marks its founding by Kodak camera inventor read more

Wyoming’s largest financial cooperative, the $1.1 billion Blue Federal Credit Union in Cheyenne, said Tuesday it is purchasing two Liberty Savings Bank branches in read more

Two more rate cuts coming

New marcus phone app

Oh no say it isn't so...

Some programs will be free for up to $69,000 in income. While popular tax preparation software companies, like Intuit and H&R Block, are members of read more

Are you a veteran, service member, or surviving spouse? Perhaps you've heard that the VA can help you get a mortgage loan, but you're not sure where to start. This read more

If you're like many aspiring homeowners, you're probably most excited to find a home you love in the neighborhood you want to live in. However, it pays off to spend read more

Each year, the IRS receives over 100 million individual income tax returns. As the year winds down, it's time to get ready for tax season and the April 15 filing read more

Press Release January 7, 2020 NEW YORK - Superintendent of Financial Services Linda A. Lacewell today announced that the New York State Department of Financial read more

Entegra Financial Corp. Shareholders Approve Merger With First Citizens BankRaleigh, North Carolina and Franklin, North Carolina | August 1, 2019Entegra Financial read more

While popular tax preparation software companies, like Intuit and H&R Block, are members of the Free File Alliance, you can only qualify for the Free File read more

The stock market's 30% gain in 2019 was in no small part backed by the Fed's decision to cut U.S. interest rates three times and inject more than $1 trillion of read more

Among them is Dort Federal Credit Union 

This bank pays interest without charging monthly fees, but there's a downside.

A few noteworthy excerpts from this useful I-Bond article:they remain the best inflation-protected investment available, with guaranteed above-inflation yields that read more

This conversion removes membership barriers and provides opportunity for future growth and sustainability as we are now able to serve anyone who lives, works, read more

Can we ever retire before death

With the turn of the new year, a crop of bank mergers and acquisitions take effect.

The IRS announced significant changes Monday to its deal with the tax prep software industry. Now companies are barred from hiding their free products from search read more

Few things get people to riot faster than pension cuts. Recent protests in France and Chile were largely about retirement benefits. Even if they don't take to the read more

"When the clock strikes midnight on Dec. 31, it will not only usher in a new decade. It will also bring in a host of retirement changes. And that could have big read more

By Beneficiaries of individual retirement accounts may not see their inheritances for a decade under the newly passed SECURE Act, and when they do get the money, read more

It may be a better time than ever to save in a Roth retirement account. A Roth 401(k) plan or Roth individual retirement account allows savers to stash away money read more

Spending slowing down

Beginning for deaths after December 31, 2019, the stretch IRA will be replaced with a ten year rule for the vast majority of beneficiaries. The rule will require read more