The Sun's Financial Diary

Do you own a Citi Platinum Select/AAdvantage Visa Signature Card? I got this card in March 2011 when there was bigger promotion of 50,000 bonus miles (now as a new cardholder, you can still receive 30,000 miles). But immediately after I got the bonus miles which required me to spend $1,000 in the first three [...]

Do you still remember Revolution Money Exchange? It has been a while since I mentioned it here last time. Actually, it probably has been even a longer time since I last used the service, which was renamed to Serve from American Express after American Express purchased Revolution Money, the online payment service provider similar to [...]

In recent years, debit card transactions have soared as more and more consumers switched from traditional credit cards to debit cards after the financial crisis that started in late 2007, which eventually led to the recession. In addition to the fact that credit has become harder and harder to obtain since then, many people were [...]

Here’s another choice if you are looking for a business credit card with rewards. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a business card offering from Citibank, the CitiBusiness ThankYou Card, that allows new card members to earn $150 as a bonus after meeting the spending requirement. It’s quite common these days for card [...]

In the past, I have wrote about different versions of credit cards from Citibank that offer cardholders ThankYou Points as rewards, including ThankYou® Preferred Card and Premier Card, which I own. Those are the cards for people with excellent credit who are looking for credit cards with decent rewards. With those Citi ThankYou cards, members [...]

[This is an updated offer from Chase for its British Airways Visa Signature Card. For a limited time you can earn up to 100,000 Bonus Avios Points with the current promotion.] If you travel a lot with British Airways, then the British Airways Visa Signature Card will help you rack up rewards points with the [...]

The first ever credit card I got was a student card that I applied for using those credit card application forms commonly found on college campuses 16 years ago. Since I had never had a credit card before, there wasn’t any credit history of me at all to be based on for the credit decisions. [...]

Early last year American Express replaced its Blue Cash card with the new Blue Cash Everyday Card. The Blue Cash Everyday Card offers cardholders rebates for everyday purchases, such as 3% cashback at supermarkets, 2% at gas stations and department stores, and 1% everywhere else.  And just like the old card, the Blue Cash Everyday Card has [...]