Banking Reviews and Banking Rates

Below you’ll find the posts at Financial Advice Zone from the banking reviews category.We highly recommend you read each of them if you’re serious about saving money on your banking fees with our banking reviews

Ally Bank Online Savings

Should Couples Have Separate Bank Accounts

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Billy and his wife Sally share a joint checking account. They are married and feel that everything should be shared, including their money. They discuss all of the purchases that they make and they come to an agreement about their finances before they spend anything. This makes sense to them. Their money is us and [...]

How To Avoid Higher Bank Fees

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Has your bank recently raised the fees on your checking account? If not, consider yourself fortunate, although that may be temporary. Citi announced that it would begin raising fees on their checking account customers, starting in December. Citi follows Bank of America and a number of other financial institutions in hiking monthly fees on various [...]

Chase Sapphire Credit Card

If you are looking for a rewards card that suits your needs then the Chase Sapphire(SM) Card is a card worth focusing your attention on! This credit card offers more rewards to consumers than does the Chase Freedom Card. However you must not only have fair or good credit but excellent credit. You also must [...]

SilverCard Prepaid MasterCard® Offer

If you have gone through a rough financial patch and as a result your credit score dropped, you may need to consider a prepaid credit card to help reestablish good credit.  Although credit cards of this type are designed specifically for this reason, students or individuals who have not yet established any credit at all [...]

PerkStreet Financial (SM) MasterCard® Debit Card

Saving money is about making good choices. Choosing a bank certainly falls into this category. Banks are notorious for add-on fees to your accounts. And while there are literally hundreds of places you can choose to do your banking, we found that PerkStreet Financial was worth our time to evaluate. PerkStreet Financial does things a [...]

Discover Bank Online Savings Account

Recently many consumers have realized that Discover Bank existed, and they had an online savings account. The credit card company has not had their bank branch long and not many people have realized it was there until E-Trade announced that a portion of their non-brokerage accounts were being moved to Discover Bank online savings accounts. [...]

Wells Fargo Online Savings Account

Founded in 1852, Wells Fargo Bank has become one of the most diverse, widely known, and largest banks in the United States. They are the only bank to ever be awarded a AAA rating by S&P. A few years ago they were named the World’s Safest Bank based on their security with long-term funds and [...]

Ally Bank Online Savings Account

If you’re looking for a high interest online savings account, Ally Bank is a great place to start.  You will earn a much higher rate than you will with an average savings account.  As of December 2009, Ally Bank is offering their online savings account with a 1.50% Annual Percentage Yield.  While most of the [...]

American Express Bank Online Savings Account

One of the best money tools you can use in this economy is a high interest online savings account.  There are many choices at several different banks.  I have found that American Express Bank, FSB, offers one of the highest rates available at 1.50% APY effective as of December 17, 2009.  The interest is compounded [...]

Capital One Online Savings Account

Banks are eagerly competing in this economy to earn your business and some of them are offering high interest rates to entice you, especially online.  It will be a long time before we see rates as high as 5% as we did in the fall of 2008, and most traditional banks are offering and average [...]

E-Loan Online Savings Account

E-Loan is a subsidiary bank of Banco Popular North America, which is a New York chartered bank that has FDIC insurance. It is a very large national bank that holds over $12 billion in assets. E-Loan is the branch of the larger bank that handles most of their online savings accounts and their associated rates. [...]