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Can Your Insurance Company Afford to Pay Your Claim?
The financial strength of an insurance company should be an important consideration before you buy a policy. Hereââ¬â¢s why.
Read →New Dominion Bank has recently returned to profitability, so what's behind a huge blow in their Bauer Financial rating?
Read →2.84 percent is a great rate on a five year CD by current standards, but is it worth tangling with Evabank's zero-star Bauer Financial rating?
Read →First City Bank appears on a lot of BestCashCow's rate lists...but why is their Bauer Financial rating a disaster?
Read →It's not just an insurance company--they've also got some surprisingly good deals on CDs.
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Peter Atwater Suggests Eliminating FDIC as Part of Banking Reform
Peter Atwater, one of the individuals responsible for building JP Morgan's securitization business during the late 1980s and early 1990s believes that doing away with the FDIC will help promote bank stability and soundness in the... Read →
Paid Your Taxes Yet? Your Bank Probably Hasn't.
Despite the fact that most of us have been either writing checks to Uncle all year or are preparing to write one big one now, the banks we do business with are less likely than ever to pay taxes for 2009.
Read →Tired of the credit crunch, state and local governments are putting their money where their mouths are--with small banks. Should you join them?
Read →Christopher Dodd just held a news conference to explain his new blueprint for sweeping financial reform.
Read →For the first time since 2002, bank branch networks in the United States are getting smaller.
Read →NewDominion Bank out of Charlotte, NC is offering a competitive 1.5% APY savings account rate.
Read →The online banking service - GiftsforBanking.com - is offering competitive rates and features as part of a new program.
Read →North Carolina's MidCarolina Bank is offering a great bonus for signing up for a reward checking account.
Read →iGOBanking is now offering some pretty decent gifts along with their competetitive CD rates to open a CD. They have just launched a new website called giftsforbanking.com that showcases the gifts they provide. The type of gift you'll receive depends on the amount of money you deposit into the cd as well as its term.
Read →People do not generally have a good feeling toward banks. But Ally Bank is trying to change that with exciting products and features for new and existing customers.
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