The Sun's Financial Diary

Online discount broker TradeKing is running a new promotion from now to the end of August 2010 which will give a $50 bonus if you open a TradeKing broker account and Fund the account with at least $2,500 within 30 days of account opening; Make at least one trade within 180 days of account opening; [...]

EverBank is running a promotion right now for its Yield Pledge Money Market Account and FreeNet Checking Account with up to $75 bonus. The bonus is offered separately for the Money Market Account and Checking Account, which means that in order to get the maximum $75 bonus, you will need to open both a Money [...]

Got this offer from ING Direct. It is a new promotion for ING Direct Electric Orange Checking Account. The promotion offers $50 bonus cash if the following conditions are met: Open an ING Electric Orange Checking Account with coupon code ECNSTND2. Activate your Electric Orange Debit MasterCard and use it to make at least 3 [...]

WTDirect, one of the online banks that I wrote about quite often here, is running a new promotion which will give each new customer up to $500 cash bonus. From now to June 15, 2010, if you open a WTDirect Savings Account (see WTDirect review for details), you will receive $100 bonus for every $10,000 [...]

Received this offer from MyPoints the other day. Since I am already a Costco member (I also use Costo TrueEarnings Card to earn cash back for shopping at Costco. You can get $25 bonus if you apply for the card now.) and that this offer is only valid for new membership application, maybe somebody else [...]

When what every bank is doing these days is pretty much the same: cutting interest rate, Capital One surprised me last week with a move that bucks the trend: they increased the yield of the InterestPlus Savings Account from 1.25% to 1.30% APY. That’s pretty rare, considering how much rates have been cut by online banks [...]

Got this offer in my Inbox today, but not sure whether it’s a targeted offer or not since I do have a FNBO Direct Online Savings Account (if you also have a savings account with them, you may as well get the same offer). Also there’s no promotion code or reference code in the email. [...]

ING Direct is offering a $50 bonus when you open an ING Electric Orange Checking Account and Activate your Electric Orange Debit MasterCard Use the card to make at least 3 signature-based purchases within 45 days of account opening. The $50 bonus will automatically be deposited into your account on day 50 if all above [...]