The Sun's Financial Diary

Starwood Preferred Guest Card from American Express is having a promotion that will give new cardholder up to 25,000 Starpoints in bonus. Of those bonus points, 10,000 points (enough for up to 3 free nights at a Category 1 or 2 hotel) will be credited after the first purchase within the first year. The additional [...]

Discover is offering a $50 bonus for every new, approved application for its More Card after spending $500 in the first 3 months.
The More Card lets cardholder earn unlimited cash rewards on all purchases. Benefits of the More Card include:

5% cashback on purchases on travel, home improvement stores, department stores, gas stations, groceries, and restaurants, [...]

A quick post on a couple of new bank account bonuses.
Bank of America is offering a $50 bonus when opening a new MyAccess Checking Account with promotion code GROUP50 and a minimum initial deposit of $25. According to the offer page, there’s no monthly fee for MyAccess Checking Account opened with the above promo code. [...]

Looking for incentives to open a bank account? Following are some bonus offers valid for this month (March 2009) only. All of them are for checking accounts though.

M&T Bank is offering $100 bonus when opening a M&T Direct Checking, Classic Checking (with interest), Select Checking or Power Checking or $25 bonus for M&T Totally Free [...]

Only one week into the peer-to-peer lending business, I already received my first payment of $0.80 ($0.60 principle plus $0.20 interest, that’s equivalent to 10.2% yield). It’s from a $25 loan I purchased last week using Lending Club Note Trading Platform (check out my Lending Club Note Trading Platform review for details). The loan isn’t [...]

Are you still interested in ShareBuilder?
If you are, then you can get $25 bonus when opening a new account. This offer is only good for joint, individual and custodial accounts, not for IRA or ESA accounts. The bonus will be credited to your new account within four to six weeks after the first transaction is [...]

It’s alive again!
Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Savings Plan, the plan that was rated as one of the best college savings plans by Morningstar in 2007 which is also the one we’re using to save for our daughter’s future education, has reinstated the $25 referral program. The program was first launched last December and from what I [...]

In late December, I took advantage of the free filing offer from MyCorportation (MyCorporation reviews) and registered my own company for my little online business (and saved $149 filing fee ). I am glad the whole process went very smoothly without any incident. About two weeks ago, the package arrived with the certificate [...]

Just a quick reminder of a couple of bonus offers that will expire soon.
CollegeAdvantage $25 referral bonus will officially end tomorrow, December 15th, 2008. Though there were rumors that the offer has been extended, from what I heard from CollegeAdvantage, the promotion will end tomorrow. If you want to take advantage of this offer before [...]

A quick roundup of referral or sign-up bonuses that are still available. I am all for taking the incentives, whether it’s a bank account, brokerage account, or a credit card. My theory is if that’s what I wanted, why let the free money pass by? Check out the list below to see if there’s anything [...]