The Sun's Financial Diary

It has been more than one and a half years since I last solicited ING Direct referral links from readers. For the past 18 months, I have posted 1,034 referral links for both ING Direct Orange Savings Account and Electric Orange Checking Account (I wanted it go faster, but that’s not something I can control [...]

This is a new free online checking account offer with $50 new account bonus. PerkStreet Financial is offering a PerkStreet Online Checking Account that allows account owners to earn cash back with their Visa Debit Card. Every time you use the debit card in non-PIN transactions, you can earn 1% cash back. Right now PerkStreet [...]

I have always been on the look out for better savings accounts, which are getting harder and harder to come by these days in such a low interest rate environment.  One of those accounts that had been on my radar for a long time was EverBank High Yield Money Market Account. What makes EverBank stand [...]

InterestPlus Online Savings is an online savings account that gives you: Get a 1.30% Annual Percentage Yield on balances of $2,500 or more. Get a 10% bonus on your interest earned four times a year. Just open and use your Capital One credit card at least once a month or keep an average balance of [...]

The bank itself may be not, but its parent, GMAC Financial Services, is certainly in a situation no bank wants to be in. News came out this morning that GMAC, the recipient of billions of dollars of taxpayer money since last December, is going back to the government to ask for more money. That would [...]

I opened a PNC Business Checking Account early this year for the little business I am running.  The reasons I had the account with PNC are that 1) they have a branch office in our neighborhood, so it’s easy to make a deposit; 2) the account has low balance requirement and no monthly fees; 3) [...]

Well, this really comes as a surprise because I have already gotten used to Ally Bank’s endless adjustments of the rates of their banking products. I was so pissed by the bank’s weekly rate reduction (yes, a rate change here or there every week) that I left Ally Bank only a couple of weeks after [...]

a long time ago. When I updated our July net worth early this month, I mentioned that I opened another savings account. That’s was barely one month after I got an account from Ally Bank. The reason is that I became extremely disappointed by Ally Bank, not only because of all the troubles with Ally [...]