RSS Feed for FinancialCategory: Financial

Credit Card Hacking: 38% Involved Hotel Industry In 2009!

Credit Card Hacking: 38% Involved Hotel Industry In 2009!

How many little plastic cards with a magnetic strip across the back do you use?  The impact these little cards have on our lives is enormous, so how can we live without them?  These situations might not be new to many of you but I don’t travel all that much so if it happened to [...]

Automatic Payments, a Blanket Authorization to Steal Your Money?

Automatic Payments, a Blanket Authorization to Steal Your Money?

When you authorize a company to take money from your bank account automatically, that is exactly what they do!  It doesn’t take long to start pulling that money out, but just try to cancel that authorization!  Everyone tells you that you can stop automatic payment at any time, but have you ever actually tried to [...]

I didn’t apply for that loan….did you?

I didn’t apply for that loan….did you?

Have you checked your credit report lately? The law says you get one report from each of the three reporting agencies – FREE – once a year. So request ONE report every 4 months and you are covered year round. January = Experian, May = TransUnion, and September = Equifax. Get on top of your [...]

Online Banking with Quicken

Online Banking with Quicken

A few years ago I had a number of accounts at a local Financial Institution (not to be named because I don’t really think the name is specific to the situation.) When I relocated to another state I opened new accounts at the local bank and signed up for online banking with Quicken (for a [...]

Archives

UA-17387945