iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app

Online Banking

Greening Your Financial Life: Tips from Ally Bank

Diane Morais | Posted 04.22.2013 | Green
Diane Morais

Just as driving a hybrid vehicle means less time spent filling up and using less water means shorter showers, greening your finances doesn't just help save the environment -- it saves you time.

It's Trick or Treat in Cyberland...

Rebecca Abrahams | Posted 04.01.2013 | Technology
Rebecca Abrahams

Mobile connectivity is exploding and smartphones and tablets are whetting the appetites of cyber criminals and the population of hacker world. Any device that has information stored on it is vulnerable.

Banking on Easy, Fee-Free Spring Travel?

Diane Morais | Posted 03.26.2013 | Travel
Diane Morais

People across the country are finalizing their plans and wallets for spring break. As many Americans hit the road for vacations and family trips in the coming weeks, ensuring easy access to cash will be an important part of their vacation planning.

Prepaid Is the New Checking (With Help From Your Cellphone)

Patrice Peyret | Posted 04.06.2013 | Business
Patrice Peyret

After years of being two separate product lines, prepaid card accounts and checking accounts are merging into a single new offering.

Incorporating Savings Into Your Budget

Tim Chen | Posted 03.31.2013 | Business
Tim Chen

To further highlight a looming problem, fewer families report having saved in the past year, and median net worth (adjusted for inflation) has declined since 2007, according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances. How can we as consumers turn things around?

Catherine New

Cyber Attacks On Banks Are Price Of Banking In Digital Era

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 10.04.2012 | Home

Many were inconvenienced, but few customers, if any, reported serious financial harm after last week's cyber attacks that hit at least six major banks...

What's Protecting Your eWallet?

Daniel Burrus | Posted 10.17.2012 | Technology
Daniel Burrus

Increasingly, we'll see biometrics being used on our phones and tablets, and on all our computing devices as we make the switch from the leather wallet to the digital wallet.

Online Banking vs. Mobile Banking

Robert Siciliano | Posted 08.01.2012 | Home
Robert Siciliano

While PC-based online banking is not much older than a high school student, mobile banking is still in elementary school. However, online banking's younger sibling is quickly catching up to the slightly more established option.

Identity Theft Still on the Rise

Robert Siciliano | Posted 07.31.2012 | Crime
Robert Siciliano

For the 12th year in a row, identity theft complaints top the list of consumer complaints received by the Federal Trade Commission. Fifteen percent of more than 1.8 million total complaints filed in 2011 involved identity theft.

So Long, Toasters: Cool Bank Gimmicks

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 03.14.2012 | Home

Gone are the days of getting a free toaster in exchange for setting up a bank account. Now, banks feature posh lounges with hip furniture and offer a ...

With Metlife Deal, GE Takes On $7.5 Billion In Consumer Banking Deposits

Posted 12.27.2011 | Business

(BEN BERKOWITZ and TANYA AGRAWAL, Reuters) - General Electric Co jumped into the retail deposits business on Tuesday, buying the online bank fro...

Bank Outlook 2012: Six Trends to Watch

Richard Barrington | Posted 02.20.2012 | Business
Richard Barrington

Will customers be treated to higher deposit or higher fees? Or will a wild card such as technology dominate banking news in 2012?

Would You Login to Your Bank Using Facebook?

Brett King | Posted 02.07.2012 | Business
Brett King

Customers have already decided they want their mobile device to be their bank. They've already decided that they want to discuss your brand and your service capability in the open community of social media.

Bank Of America Blames Website Issues On Upgrade

Posted 12.06.2011 | Business

Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) said an ongoing upgrade and heavy traffic was behind six days of problems with its banking website, easing concerns a...

10 Reasons You Need A Tablet

Posted 08.19.2011 | Entertainment

With Verizon Wireless expanding its 4G LTE network across the country, tablet manufacturers worldwide are working tirelessly to create unique, innovat...

Profile of Early-Adopters: Low-Income African-American Women With Kids and No College

Patrice Peyret | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Patrice Peyret

People adopting online financial services are ahead of the curve. And people adopting newer, alternative services are true early adopters.

Bank Of America Website Goes Down

Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

If you want to do online banking today and your bank is Bank of America, you may be out of luck. Its website has been down through much of today, Jan....

Keeping Your Parents Safe Online

Christopher Burgess | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Christopher Burgess

As the year comes to a close, I see many compiling lists of tips and ideas on how you and yours can stay safe online. Earlier this month Cisco held a ...

How To Start Your Own Bank

Huffington Post | Rebecca Harrington | Posted 04.17.2012 | Business

Starting a bank sounds like an impossible Gilded Age enterprise; more befitting of a Rockefeller than today's small business owner. But it's not as im...

The Great Debate: To Automate or Not

Alexa von Tobel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Alexa von Tobel

Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances.

How to Leverage the Web to Improve Your Personal Finances

Alexa von Tobel | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Alexa von Tobel

You can very easily leverage the internet to gain a greater understanding of your personal finances in a few short steps.

Valentine's Day and Leaving a Tip for the "Little People"

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Don McNay

Take a good look around and if you're looking down Put a little love in your heart -Jackie DeShannon In the early 1990's, I was one of the nation...

Bank of America Pushes Online Banking Over Local Branches

Los Angeles Times | E. Scott Reckard and Jerry Hirsch | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Bank of America Corp., a pioneer in banking online and through mobile phones, said Tuesday that it was considering closing up to 10% of its 6,100 offi...

Quick on the Draw -- and the Overdraw

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Rick Horowitz

I've tiptoed only so far into Techno-Dollar World. I finally started paying some of my bills online. Which was more than enough to get me into hot water.

Kiva.org: Change The World With $25 And A Click

Janet Kinosian | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Janet Kinosian

For as little as $25, anyone in the world can log on to kiva.org and loan an entrepreneur somewhere in the world the money to improve their business.