The Sun's Financial Diary

Since I don’t use ING Electric Orange, I have no idea when exactly the change begins, but that’s what I found on an ING flyer in the mail yesterday. The main change is at the low balance range, which I think is appropriate as most people may not have over $50K in their checking account. [...]

HSBC is offering a $75 bonus for opening an interest checking account with them. With the checking account, customers also get “free Personal Internet Banking and Bill Pay and an HSBC Debit MasterCard with PayPass.” The Terms & Conditions for this offer says HSBC reserves the right to charge your checking account an amount equal [...]

E-Trade is offering a $25 bonus when opening a new Complete Savings Account with a minimum deposit of $1. Terms and conditions for the bonus money include: $25 will be credited to your Complete Savings Account within 30 days of the account being funded with a minimum deposit of $1. Payments will be reported as [...]

Got this offer in the email this morning. First, the good news is you can get a $100 bonus if you open a Citi e-Savings account and fund the account with $5,000 before March 31, 2007. Conditions to qualify for the $100 bonus are: $100 offer is only available for first-time Citibank deposit (checking or [...]

I first learned this new promotion from FatWallet forum this afternoon, but couldn't confirm the news from their website. A couple of minutes ago, however, an email from HSBC indeed says there will be a promotion from January 29 to April 30 for any new money deposited to earn an interest rate of 6.0% APY. [...]

Back in November 2006, I wrote a review of ING’s Electric Orange checking account. Since then, I have received some feedbacks from readers who have used this account and their first-hand experience more valuable than what I said from outside. Personally, I didn’t use the account because I don’t know what exactly I can get [...]

I initiated a transfer of $2,000 from my EmigrantDirect account to IGoBanking account on January 17th after setting up external account links and verifying my ownership of those accounts I linked to IGoBanking (I have linked Bank of America checking account and EmigrantDirect and HSBC savings accounts). The fund was posted on my account on [...]

I opened an IGoBanking Savings account last Sunday for their 5.30% APY, which is better than what I am getting from HSBC and EmigrantDirect, two of my primary savings account. Last Monday, January 9th, two trial deposits were made to my Bank of America checking account to verify my ownership of the account that I [...]