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As Angry Customers Flee Financial Giants, Online Banks Are Booming
3:30PM 10/06/2011
While thousands of Americans unleash their anger at big banks in protests around the country, many more are registering their dissatisfaction from their keyboards. In the wake of last week's news that Bank of America is adding a new $5 fee for debit card use, online-only banks saw waves of new customers coming through their virtual doors.
It's the end of free checking, almost: Where does your bank sit?
10:00PM 6/30/2010
You may have noticed the recent headlines, or maybe you learned about it through your own bank: The end of free checking appears to be near.
Still, it's not quite time for free checking's death-knell just yet. Despite the flood of questioning from news publications -- "Is free checking over?" --...
Discount Brokerages Push Savings Products to Investors
2:30PM 1/16/2010
As the personal savings rate in the US has grown to 4.4% and continues to rise, Charles Schwab, TD Ameritrade and ING Direct are trying to entice investors to save a portion of that growing asset base with them.
European financial services giant ING Groep NV's (ING) has decided to split itself in two. It's going to divest its insurance and asset management divisions as part of a settlement for receiving European taxpayers' money that allowed it to avoid bankruptcy. The company will also issue additional...
It won't take a Scrooge to spoil this holiday season. Americans are already doing a very good job of it themselves, putting the brakes on gift spending -- no matter what offers retailers dangle before them.
An ING Direct (ING) survey of adults found that only 54 percent plan to spend $300 or more...
Parents would rather talk with their kids about sex than money
6:00PM 6/11/2009
Somehow this doesn't surprise me. But ING Direct, a virtual bank headquartered in Wilmington, Del., just released a study indicating that two out of five would prefer the topic of the dangers of alcohol and drugs, than have a discussion with their kids about the family's financial situation.And...
My road to financial freedom has been a bumpy one...to say the least. I'm learning that I have to think about today and tomorrow at the same time. It's not easy and at times I think I have a lot of time to plan for retirement so I just blow it off.The ups about working in education is the MANDATORY...
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