Finance Reviews
Xoom Money Transfer
When my sister from the states sends me money, the old practice was, she will send it bank to bank then Western Union evolved and then currently we have switched to Xoom. This has been the best money transfer for me so far. With all the competition going on …
First Premier Credit Card
If you are looking for a credit card and have less than perfect credit, I suggest you apply for a First Premier Bank credit card! This bank specializes in helping people re-establish their credit.
You can apply online and receive an answer immediately if you are approved. Once …
TD Bank
If you are looking for a bank, I highly recommend TD Bank! I recently opened an account with this bank when no other bank would help me. I had an old account that is listed with chexsystems that has been paid but I can not get removed …
WELLS FARGO DEPOSIT RULES
I have been banking at Wells Fargo since January of 1972. One would think that if I had a check signed over to me, that I could deposit it into my account. Not so. The person that the check was originally made out for, must either have an account …
Alertpay.com
Alertpay is another payment processor like paypal.As Paypal has put lot of restrictions over the Paid to Read and Paid to click sites,most of them has shifted to this payment processor.So the members of those sites are forced to open account in alertpay.Just like paypal you can send and …
Forex.com - Gain Capital Forex broker
Gain Capital runs a top forex broker site called Forex.com, at www.forex.com I would recommend them for a mini account, based on my 5 years of experience with them. Here is a review of their plus and minus points.
They have an excellent set of 3 trading platforms …
Bank of America
Bank of America is the worst bank I have ever banked with. I started an account at a Bank of America in Arizona where I lived when I was about twelve years old. I never really had any problems with the bank until I got older. Being so young …
Turbo Tax
Every year my least favorite thing to do is file tax returns. I guess I am the same like millions of Americans in this respect. For many years I would get out the pen and paper and manually labor through what seem like an endless mountain of receipts and …
BPI Credit Card
I have been a cardholder of the BPI credit card for 5 years already and with those number of years, I believe I have benefited much from this membership and have experienced quality of this company’s services especially relating to their credit cards. BPI is one of the top …
Richland Bank Free Checking Accounts
When I got married last year my husband and I decided we wanted a local bank to use for a shared checking account. We both have dealt with Bank of America for years, but it was important to us to have a banking center close to home. We opted …
Citzens Bank Park Philadelphia Pa
Going out to a ballgame on a summer evening is the highlight to summer for many people, myself included. The other evening my boyfriend and I headed out to Citizen’s Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pa to see the Philadelphia Phillies play. I have been to a few ballparks over …
Tuxedo maestro prepaid cards
Tuxedo prepaid cards are like master cards but actually not a master card. Tuxedo is a prepaid cards which are loaded with cash and then can be use like a master cards . These cards are accepted every where where master card are accepted.
Tuxedo are pay as you go …
Cash For Gold Program
If you are anything like me then you are always looking for the newest and best ways to make money , I try to stay up to date on the best ways to generate finances and as such I have always been fascinated by things programs that allow you …
Paypal echecks
I have recently received a payment via the paypal echeck. I don’t know if I’m going to be disappointed with Paypal’s echeck services, or I should be thankful that Paypal exists at all. The estimated clearing date was written in the details, for me it was August 2 (exactly …
ManulifeOne Mortgage
The first mortgage that I entered into was with the Royal Bank of Canada. I thought I was getting a pretty sweet deal, with 2.95% interest, and making double payments each month. In about twenty years, I’d be mortgage free! It seemed exciting.
After hanging out with …
Visa Rush Card
The Rush card is a product of Phat Farm founder Russel Simmons, one thing he does know how to do well is make money and manage his finances so I thought this would be a good thing to look into for my family members and I was very happy …
Unionbank of the Philippines Hotline
When I started in reviewstream.com, I had a Paypal account that I was most reluctant to link to my credit card. I had a very bad experience pre-paypal, and so I really researched on how I could safely get my earnings from Paypal. Fortunately, I learned that here in …
BPI
Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) may not be the number one bank in the Philippines but I think that it is still the most convenient bank here.
With my work as a professional accountant, I didn’t have the luxury to take even half an hour off the office just …
Alertpay Online Banking Merchant
This is one of those online banking merchants that I see as some serious competition for the likes of Paypal and the only difference I see between Alertpay and the competition is that Alertpay is a follower and is on the trail of the pioneer.
However, the mere fact that …
Citiseconline Trading online
With the advent of internet techonology, stock trading became much easier and more conveient. This service was pioneered by Citiseconline, also a listed company in the Philippine Stock Exchange with ticker COL.
Last year, I opened an account with Citiseconline to continue my stock tradings. It was when they …
High Yield Investment Programmes HYIP
To those of you who spend a lot of hours online, the word will not be new to you. For the rest, HYIP stands for High Yield Investment Programmes. As the word implies, these are companies or individuals who usually meddle with Forex exchange or other sorts of profitable …
Greater Vancouver Community Credit Union (GVCCU) in Surrey, Canada
I opened up an account with this credit union when I first settled in Vancouver, British Columbia in summer 2007. I always preferred to bank with a credit union because of the personalized service and family feeling. I find though that many Canadian banks have kept up …
ProPay merchant accounts
ProPay is a merchant account provider that allows small businesses to accept credit card payments from their customers. The service is primarily web based, although any type of company can use it, not just web stores. I have been using the service for six years and it has been …
Citiseconline Stockbrokers
I first went into stock trading of Philippine stocks last year through a personal broker. I initially invested around P30,000 which I soon found to be too low to make the stressful stock trading worth it. Along with the high commission rate and the not-so-on-the-spot advice the …
CoinMill Currency Converter (coinmill.com)
CoinMill.com is a website dedicated to world currency conversion. The website is complete with different countries’ currency. Conversion from one currency to the other is very easy and convenient with the site.
I liked best with the site is its unique function: you can put an amount to one …
Wells Fargo Banking & Mortgage
Over several years by now, my overall view on personal banking has been soured by televised special reports on scandals as well as seemingly slick tactics like hidden fees and delayed postings of transactions. Whenever I see an ad promoting a bank’s free checking or rewards program, I …
GE Creditline
Back in 2004 I bought this beautiful chocolate sofa worth $3000. I also bought a brand new fridge for $1000. I was able to purchase these items through getting Ge finance approval. I wish I never paid for them by this method, it would have been alot wiser …
TD Canada Trust EasyWeb Online Banking
I love my bank, and I am unsure of how many people can truthfully say that. Along with all of the features I love about it, including the great customer service I always receive in person at the branches, their online banking website is easy to maneuver, user-friendly, and …
Banco de Oro Unibank
On October 2006, I invested some of my funds into Banco de Oro Premium Unit Investment Trust Bond Fund. Banco de Oro is one of the most aggressive Philippine bank today as shown by their acquisitions of other banks one after the other. It is no secret …
Standard Chartered Super Value Titanium Card
I never believed in using credit cards and always liked to pay cash. My motto was - why pay service charge to companies when I have cash to buy, and credit cards made you spend more than you could afford. All that changed when I heard of the Standard …
PayPal
I get paid by PayPal and make all of my online purchases with it. PayPal has become an internet currency and sites without it do suffer (I don’t have a credit card so PayPal is a godsend). If you aren’t an eBay seller or online merchant, a Personal account is …
PayPal
I started my account at PayPal about 21/2 years ago. It was to get my payments from Websites that I first started using this service. It is the only fastest and reliable way to transfer money from any Website I am aware of. It is also good …
Union Bank Ortigas Branch
I have just closed my account on one of the banks I’m not ready to disclose yet. (You will discover it on my next review.) In connection to this one, I have to open a new one so that I can reactivate my PayPal account. I did research through …
Paypal
Paypal has been a real life saver for me and my family, especially since I acquired the Paypal debit card. Since being laid off from my job, it’s been difficult for me to find work outside the home, so I have been working online doing various things at various …
Marketiva Forex Broker
Marketiva is one of the online forex brokers out there. For introduction, forex refers to the market for currencies. In forex you buy one currencies and sell of another. And broker is a party that mediates between a buyer and a seller. And like I said earlier, Marketiva is …
POSH
I have been fighting with Posh for a month now trying to get back my money.
I received a return check notice from my bank and out of concern I went to Posh to see if they had the return check. Jackie the manager and owner MaryAnn (not sure of …
UCI mortgage Spain
Our Spanish mortgage is with a firm called UCI who are part of the Santander group. The mortgage was arranged for us a few years ago by a firm called Green Independent.
My opinion of UCI isn’t that great because there communication skills are very poor, and the language …
Wal-Mart Money Card
I do a lot of shopping online. I recently had fraudulent charges on my credit card. So I decided to purchase the Wal-Mart Money Card to use for my online shopping. I thought this was a really great idea because it acts as a prepaid debit …
American General Finance
This is a great company for helping those of us with less than perfect credit, build new credit. But be wary. They will try to sell you life, accident, or loss of work insurance. This I don’t mind so much if they where more up front about the cost …
Chase Fraud Detection
I recently applied for and received Chase’s Amazon.com rewards card. When I called to activate, I was kind of surprised to get an actual person on the other end of the line (I was used to Wells Fargo, which is completely automated). Points to Chase on having a human. …
BankOfIndia.com
As name suggests this is an official site for bank of India, one of the leading banks of India. This site reports online banking and it has been mainly designed for customer care and hint. The lay out of this site is good and user friendly, they do provide …
TaxACT E-file Online
As a store manager for a tax preparation franchise, I have quite a bit of experience with income tax preparation software, both for professional and personal use. If you cannot or will not pay preparation fees, and I like you, I sometimes make a referral. By clicking through …
BPI Blue Mastercard
I’m not a really big fan of credit card ever since because I believe that “if you can’t pay it in cash then don’t buy it at all”. Those were words that had struck me by one of the columns I had read in one of the daily newspaper …
Astrido Group
Astrido Group is known as a company who can give their customer a service to lease a car. What is good from their offer? When you lease a car with their financial service, you can own the car in the end of the leasing term. So in another way, …
The First Bank, Calais Maine
The First bank is a small, local operation ran by local people, across the state of Maine. This particular review relates to the Calais branch, as I have no personal experience with the other branches. I recently (within the last year) opened an account with them after previously using …
YAP prepaid debit Mastercard Card
The YAP prepaid debit card - one of the WORST deals ever. Here’s why.
If you’ve ever been caught up with chex systems, been denied a bank account, or are plugged into the world of DIY virtual credit cards, then you’ve probably it heard of prepaid debit cards. These prepaid …
Paypal
I think most of you already know about Paypal. So far, Paypal is the best way to do transaction or payment online. People can send or receive money online easily when they use Paypal.
When you register Paypal account, you need to have a valid email address. Than you can …
PayPal
Just about any online seller or business takes PayPal! It’s amazing I tell you!! Amazing!! I love how you can withdraw and transfer money from bank account to bank account, to family members and friends, or back and forth.
The most amazing thing is PayPal’s partnership with eBay. Because …
Banco de Oro Credit Card
I got my credit card by accident. I’ve been trying to apply for one a few months ago, but with no steady income from a job, I was considered a bad customer for the banks. Luckily, Banco de Oro sent me a gold card. Until now, I don’t know …
Bank of Baroda
A semi- Government bank and is one of the best bank around India. Though A government venture it deals with it’s customers more social and responsibly then most of the privates sector Banks. Private sector banks are know for it’s promptness in services and their approach and hospitality towards …
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