The Sun's Financial Diary

Why $64.62? Why not a round number like $25, $50 or $100? According to Lending Club, the peer-to-peer lending operator, banks in U.S. made $6.462 billion last quarter. Apparently, that’s where the number is coming from. Of course, you can not getting that much as bonus. Still, $64.62 is quite a decent number. From December [...]

Do you have a lot of coins? If you do, what do you do with them? Throw them away, or put them in your bank account? Right now Coinstar is running a promotion for this coin counting machines with a free $10 Amazon.com gift card. If you cash in $40 or more in coins onto [...]

In a rare promotional event, ING Direct is offering $121 account opening bonus for it Electric Orange Checking Account on Black Friday, November 27, 2009. The reason for setting the bonus at $121, which seems to be a generous but odd amount, is that the bank says that consumers pay $121 overdraft fee every year [...]

The reason I got my optionsXpress account two years ago was that the broker had a promotion at that time that gave every new customer $100 bonus with a minimum of $500 deposit. That’s 20% return without much work. So I opened the account, made the deposit and received the bonus. Unlike other free money [...]

Online discount stock brokers Firstrade is having a triple sign-up bonus promotion. Open an account with Firstrade between now and December 31, 2009, and fund the new account, individual, joint, or IRA account, within 30 days after the account is opened to Receive 100 commission-free trades for funds of $2,000 or more Receive 100 commission-free [...]

The deal isn’t as good as what the card used to offer, but is still quite decent, if you are shopping for a new credit card that can actually becomes your everyday card. Chase Freedom Card is having a promotion which will give new cardholder $50 bonus after the first purchase. I got the card [...]

If you are looking for a little incentive to open a bank or brokerage account, there are a few promotions currently running which will give you as much as $50 bonus for a single new account. Check them out. Maybe there’s something you need TradeKing $50 bonus for a new account: Open an account before [...]

Capital One Direct is offering $25 bonus for its Online Savings Account and Money Market Account. I opened a Capital One Savings Account last year when the rate was much higher and much attractive than the current rate of 1.60% APY. In this low rate environment, good rates for savings account are hard to find [...]