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custom cards (again)

A while back I posted about Garanti Bank offering some pretty sweet customized credit cards. A co-worker recently emailed me back talking about this particular product again and I got a chance to re-read the original Springwise article. One of the visitors noted that First National Bank of Omaha is also offering such a card. [...]

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Epiphanies and IRA’s

A few months back while we were planning out our deposit strategy for 2007 and 2008, I just rattled an idea out of my head. No clue where it came from, but I just blurted it out. Why does our IRA rate suck? (That wasn’t my idea, just my observation.) The average life of one [...]

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Money Merge Account/One Account

I stumbled upon the article in Wikipedia today about Money Merge Accounts. While I completely agree that paying for a software program to “manage” this appalling, consumers searching for info on how they can do this for themselves will find the Wikipedia article and not useful information about how this can be accomplished. I love [...]

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IdeaStorm

Dell has started making some good progress towards turning the company around and their new IdeaStorm site is awesome. It just launched on Friday, February 16th, but the content of the site is already taking off. The basic idea behind the site is for current, or potential, Dell customers to submit their ideas on what [...]

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Zecco?

Well ShareBuilder and SogoInvest need to move over; here comes Zecco. Backed by one of the early backers of Skype, Zecco is bringing $0 commission trading to the stock market. Not only are the trades free (up to a limit of course), but they also have a “community” of investors that haves blogs, forums, etc. [...]

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It’s Pay Day!

Here’s fun promotional savings idea: have parents bring their kids in to open a youth savings account, or deposit some amount of money, and receive the board game Pay Day for free! What’s in it for the parents? We’ll match your pay day! CNNMoney posted an article about “5 gifts that will make your kids [...]

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more on ING’s "Electric Orange"

More press coverage of ING’s new online checking account. Deleware Online – The News Journal

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Form 8888 (again)

I want to put an IRS for in our statements. Sounds kinda weird, huh. I want to put Form 8888 into our year-end statements (see original post here), which contains our 1099′s, and have it pre-populated with our routing number. Give the members a little instruction sheet, tell them what the form is, why they [...]

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