The Sun's Financial Diary

Citibank is currently having a promotion for their Ultimate Savings Account and the reward is 40,000 ThankYou points which can be redeemed for 2 round-trip tickets, with each valued up to $400. To get the bonus points: Open a Citibank regular checking account, link it to a new or existing Citibank Ultimate Savings Account and [...]

I sent out several $20 Amazon.com gift cards tonight to those who used my bonus sharing program in February. Last month, a few readers used my referral links to open and fund their brokerage account at Zecco.com, which rewarded me a $50 bonus for each new account I referred to them. I in turn offer [...]

Chase Freedom card is offering $10 bonus for every $150 spend commuting in New York City till March 31, 2008. Eligible purchases include MatroCard fees and NYC Yellow cab fares. To participate, you have to register your Freedom card at Chase Commuter Cash. According to the promotion, rewards earned will be deposited into your card [...]

I want to thank those who used my referrals to sign up their brokerage and bank accounts in January! Tonight, I sent out several $20 Amazon.com gift cards to readers who responded to the referral invitations and opened and funded their Zecco and TradeKing accounts. The account opening process has been completed and I have [...]

Do you a lot of shopping online? If you do, do you use any portal to earn rebates? I do and one of the portals I use quite often is Ebates.com. So far I have earned a total of $60.46 rebates. Not a lot, but still good. A couple of days ago I got an [...]

Here are a couple of bonus offers I received last week. Feel free to use it if you can. If you want to open an ING Direct Orange Savings account, I have a reference code for $25 bonus from the March issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. ING Direct lowered its interest rate again last [...]

The $100 bonus offer from OptionsXpress is back! To get the bonus, $500 must be deposited into the account by March 31, 2008. I opened an account when the offer was around before the new year. Now I am just waiting for the free money Meanwhile, TradeKing is also giving $100 bonus for new accounts [...]

More bonus for using my referral links! I have accounts with many banks, brokers, and online shopping rewards sites, etc., and some of them offer benefits for referring a new customer. If you need a referral for the following programs, please use the contact form to send me an email with a valid email address [...]