The Sun's Financial Diary

Citibank is running a special holiday promotion for two of its student credit cards: the Citi Forward Card and the mtvU Card. From now till January 15, 2010, if you apply and are approved for either one of the two cards, you can receive extra rewards (in ThankYou Points) when using the card during the [...]

Why $64.62? Why not a round number like $25, $50 or $100?
According to Lending Club, the peer-to-peer lending operator, banks in U.S. made $6.462 billion last quarter. Apparently, that’s where the number is coming from. Of course, you can not getting that much as bonus. Still, $64.62 is quite a decent number.
From December 3 to [...]

Are you a college student who are shopping for your first credit card?
If you are, Citibank has a credit card for you, which not only gives you generous cash back for items you are likely to shop very often, but also rewards you for having a good grade. The card is called Citi mtvU Platinum [...]

Do you have a lot of coins? If you do, what do you do with them? Throw them away, or put them in your bank account?
Right now Coinstar is running a promotion for this coin counting machines with a free $10 Amazon.com gift card. If you cash in $40 or more in coins onto an [...]

In a rare promotional event, ING Direct is offering $121 account opening bonus for it Electric Orange Checking Account on Black Friday, November 27, 2009.
The reason for setting the bonus at $121, which seems to be a generous but odd amount, is that the bank says that consumers pay $121 overdraft fee every year on [...]

Looks like online brokers are running a lot of promotions these days to attract new customers.
SogoTrade is offering 100 commission free trades for every new customer. It’s quite easy to get the free trades: Open a SogoTrade account; fund the account with $500; receive the bonus. There is a restriction on the free trades though. [...]

The reason I got my optionsXpress account two years ago was that the broker had a promotion at that time that gave every new customer $100 bonus with a minimum of $500 deposit. That’s 20% return without much work. So I opened the account, made the deposit and received the bonus. Unlike other free money [...]

Last month, online discount broker TradeKing launched the $50 new account bonus promotion as part of their annual fall campaign to sign up new customers. The offer was first supposed to end on October 31st, but the broker decided to extend the promotion by one month to the end of November.
I have been a TradeKing [...]

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 Financial [...]

The new Chase Sapphire Card is a premier travel rewards card that offers excellent credit card features.  Some of the key benefits of the Sapphire Card include:

Earn 1 point for each $1 spent on purchases.
Earn an additional 1 point for each $1 of eligible airfare net purchases made online through the program booking tool.
There are [...]