The Sun’s Financial Diary

Just got this email from ING Direct.
The online bank is currently running a promotion for its Electric Orange Checking Account. The promotion will give $25 bonus to each new customer when the following conditions are met:

Open an Electric Orange with promotion code EM298 by August 22, 2009;
Activate the Electric Orange MasterCard Debit Card;
Use the Electric [...]

Early this year, Discover introduced a new prepaid debit for teenagers, the Discover Current Card. Even though the Current card is designed specially for teens, it gives their parents a great deal of control on the way their children use the cards. The goal is by using this card, parents and teens can work [...]

WTDirect, one of the popular online banks, is running a promotion again that, for a limited time, will give up to $150 bonus for every new account.
The bank had run a few similar promotions in the past and from what I can see, the promotions were quite successful in generating interests. The yield of WTDirect [...]

Even though I am a Bank of America customer, I don’t think I got this offer myself directly from the bank. But apparently the bank is giving $25 bonus for using their online bill pay functions twice.

To get the bonus, you will need to register with the bank first. Information needed for the registration include [...]

ShareBuilder isn’t the online discount broker that I would recommend.
Even though $4 per investment is quite low, the planned investment scheme itself lacks the flexibility if you want to invest at your own time, instead of a fixed day every month. In addition, the actual cost  of each investment can be rather high if only [...]

These $100 bills look good. You know you can get one of them by getting a bank account.
Right now, there are a couple of banks offering $100 bonus when you open open a checking account with them.
Chase Checking Account $100 Bonus
Open a Chase Checking Account before June 23rd and get $100 bonus when you set [...]

Just a quick reminder that the $25 bonus from Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan will end at the end of this month.
If you are considering open a college savings account for your child’s future education, Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan makes a nice choice. The nationally available program was selected by Morningstar last month as one of [...]

Last Friday we received a membership renewal letter from Costco. Together with the notice is a $64.86 reward gift check from Costco. As a Costco Executive Member, we are able to enjoy the 2% cashback for shopping at Costco and the reward check is what we have accumulated last year, which also means that in [...]

Just got this offer from ING Direct.
The online bank is running a $50 promotion for its Electric Orange Checking Account. If you open a new checking account before May 31 and use its debit card to make three purchases within the first 45 days, the bank will you deposit $50 in your account. Sounds pretty [...]

A quick summary of credit cards that currently offer incentives:

Starwood Preferred Guest Card from American Express 25,000 Starpoints: Open a Starwood Preferred Guest Card and get up to 25,000 bonus Starpoints that can be redeemed for airline tickets, hotel stays, or room upgrade. $45 annual fee is waived for the first year. Find out more [...]