The Sun's Financial Diary

It was only a month ago when TradeKing celebrated the National Friendship Day with a promotion that gave a $50 bonus to people who opened a new account through a reference from an existing customer. Now the online discount broker is bringing back the popular promotion for the month of October and November. If you [...]

TradeKing, one of the brokers that I am actively using, is celebrating the National Friendship Day in August with a promotion! When the broker ran the program last year, I think it was quite successful from what I can see. Now the program is back with the same promotional bonus of $50. Here’s what you [...]

Just got this email from ING Direct. The online bank is currently running a promotion for its Electric Orange Checking Account. The promotion will give $25 bonus to each new customer when the following conditions are met: Open an Electric Orange with promotion code EM298 by August 22, 2009; Activate the Electric Orange MasterCard Debit [...]

Update: I was informed by Zecco that the promotion code is not transferable. Therefore, the bonus will only be rewarded to those who received the promotional email from Zecco and meet all the requirements. If you didn’t receive the original email, then you are not eligible for the bonus. I got this email from Zecco [...]

WTDirect, one of the popular online banks, is running a promotion again that, for a limited time, will give up to $150 bonus for every new account. The bank had run a few similar promotions in the past and from what I can see, the promotions were quite successful in generating interests. The yield of [...]

Even though I am a Bank of America customer, I don’t think I got this offer myself directly from the bank. But apparently the bank is giving $25 bonus for using their online bill pay functions twice. To get the bonus, you will need to register with the bank first. Information needed for the registration [...]

A quick post on a couple of new bank account bonuses. Bank of America is offering a $50 bonus when opening a new MyAccess Checking Account with promotion code GROUP50 and a minimum initial deposit of $25. According to the offer page, there’s no monthly fee for MyAccess Checking Account opened with the above promo [...]

Only one week into the peer-to-peer lending business, I already received my first payment of $0.80 ($0.60 principle plus $0.20 interest, that’s equivalent to 10.2% yield). It’s from a $25 loan I purchased last week using Lending Club Note Trading Platform (check out my Lending Club Note Trading Platform review for details). The loan isn’t [...]