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Mastercard posts interchange rates
Just a Visa recently did, Mastercard has released their interchange rates here.
Read moreWhy you (and your members) need Form 8888
What is Form 8888 you say? It is the draft version of the new IRS direct deposit form for your tax refund! Currently, your basic 1040 just gives one line to fill the depository institution’s information on. Form 8888 will let the taxpayer designate up to 3 different FI’s to send their refund to. I’ve [...]
Read moreVisa releases interchange rates
Visa has finally made public all of their interchange fees/rates so now you can see where all that money is going! Here’s the page and here’s the PDF. And Mastercard has said they will be releasing their rates by November 1st. Read the article here.
Read moreThe Reality of Virtual Economies
In-game money is beginning to attract real-world tax attention. From the article: Second Life, for example, was specifically designed by San Francisco-based Linden Lab to have a free-flowing market economy. Its internal currency, the Linden dollar, can be converted into U.S. dollars through an open currency exchange, making it effectively “real” money. And it is [...]
Read moreCU’s and HSA’s
CUNA released an article yesterday about HSA’s and how the HSA market share will lean heavily towards the banking industry side of the playing field and that CU’s market share will slip. The article also says that about 15% of the market share currently resides with CU’s and that will slip to 5% by 2010. [...]
Read moreWhat’s Sogo Invest?
I stumbled upon Sogo Invest the other day. Very similar to Sharebuilder, but cheaper. In addition, you can setup multiple “plans” instead of just one like Sharebuilder. Sogo has the standard per trade fee ($1) and the pricing plans to get a certain number of trades for free. You can even trade daily if you [...]
Read morebuild your own credit card
Garanti Bank in Turkey as developed their new Flexicard. Checkout the Springwise article about it here. And their Flexicard website is pretty darn sharp for a bank!
Read moreanother "One" account
Offered by Accelerated Equity. They call it their Money Merge Account. Here’s the demo: http://www.acequity.com/tank/tank88.html
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