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Discover Bank continues to offer competitive rates on its savings account, CDs and IRA CDs. For those who might have been unsatisfied with Discover Bank in previous years, you may want to try them aga ...

The FDIC had another busy Friday with 5 bank closures in the states of Georgia, Florida, Washington and Oregon. This brings the total number of bank failures in 2010 to 108. All of the banks were smal ...

The Police and Fire FCU (PFFCU) in Philadelphia has again added new limits on who can qualify to join the credit union. PFFCU continues to offer a 4.00% APY 5-year CD and a 3.00% APY 3-year CD, so unf ...

Northwest Savings Bank is offering a $100 bonus for opening a new Switch Checking Account. Details of this promotion are listed in the bank's promotions page as of 7/29/2010. Some important details in ...

A reader recently asked me why open a CD when rates are so low. Wouldn't an internet savings account be better until rates are higher? Last year at this time many had thought we would surely see highe ...

Twentieth Century Fox Federal Credit Union is offering a competitive 4-year CD with a 2.78% APY. Minimum deposit is $2,500. This 4-year CD is really the only noteworthy CD. Their other CD rates are mu ...

Premier Community Credit Union is offering some competitive long-term CD and IRA CD rates. Its plain 5-year CD has a rate of 3.00% APY. Minimum deposit is $500 for IRAs and $1,000 for regular CDs. The ...

EverBank has a new-account promotion in which you can earn a cash bonus of up to $75. A $50 bonus is awarded when you open the Yield Pledge Money Market Account with a minimum deposit of $20,000. A $2 ...

Last October I reported on a Wells Fargo blog post which provided details of how Wells Fargo was going to convert Wachovia's Way2Save program. The best feature of the new Way2Save program was the bonu ...

One bank has just fallen off my list of the five best nationwide reward checking accounts . ViewPoint now states on its Absolute Checking webpage that: You must live in the State of Texas in order ...

Danversbank is offering a few competitive CD and IRA CD rates. The best one is a 2.50% APY 3-year CD. It used to be easy to find 3-year CDs with yields of 2.50%, but that's no longer the case in today ...

TrustBank is offering two competitive regular CDs and a competitive 4-year add-on CD. The two regular CD rates are 2.40% APY for a 3-year term and a 3.00% APY for a 5-year term. Minimum deposit is $50 ...

TrustBank is offering a high-yield reward checking account that is a bit unusual. It offers a very high yield, but it applies only to a very small balance. So it's definitely not for those with large ...

Hawaii Pacific Federal Credit Union is one of the few institutions in Hawaii that's offering a reward checking account. It's called the Check Plus Account , and it pays 3.00% APY on all balances as of ...

Kaiser Federal Bank is offering a competitive rate of 2.40% APY on its CD and IRA CD. A little less competitive are its 2.75% APY 60-month CD and 1.60% APY 2-year CD. Minimum deposit is $1,000. These ...

Security Service Federal Credit Union lowered the rates on its 15-month CD special, but it added a new 36-month CD special with some very competitive rates. The yields vary by balance and are listed i ...

Meridian Bank is offering some competitive rates on its 60-month CD. The bank is offering a much better rate on its Jumbo CD with a $100K minimum deposit. Below are the 3 rate tiers for this 5-year CD ...

We just added the capability of being able to insert polls into the blog posts. These will occasionally appear at the top of the right sidebar on an individual blog post page. You won't see the poll i ...

One of the ways that many people simplify their finances is to automate them with the help of bill pay. Online bill pay services, or bill pay offered through your financial institution, can be a great ...

This week we finally saw the $250K standard deposit insurance coverage become permanent with the President's signing of the financial reform bill. Those who had been hoping for this day have waited fo ...