Ask any one who’s into financial planning or investments for the most popular blog in the country and I’m sure they’d say, Money Smarts.
Rightly so. Money Smarts is an inquirer blog ran by Ma. Salve Duplito, an editorial consultant for the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Throughout the years, she has …

Citizens Bank Park is now in full swing. The Philadelphia Phillies have played home here now for a few years and I feel like it is an appropriate time to give a review. Let’s start by saying, if you haven’t been to a phillies game since the Vet, the …

I have had a Countrywide mortgage for the last 3 years. Countrywide is a decent enough business. I have not had any problems with payment receipt. Right now, I am paying 6.375% for my mortgage. I attempted to refinance my mortgage during this crazy financial …

E-Passporte Debit Card www.epassporte.com
Three cheers for E-Passporte! This is a phenomenal debit card that can be purchased online without having to jump through a million hoops or pay ridiculous fees. $5 per load (minimum $25, maximum $500 per day) is all you have to go through.
You also have …

My mom and dad used to have accounts with Maybank, and recently I signed up for one as well. The reason that they decided to terminate their account is because they have a better investment in another bank account. I recently signed up for a Maybank account …

I have had nothing but good results from Lone Star Credit Union. I originally started out with them because when I bought my last vehicle they were offering financing for the car dealership. I already had an approved interest rate through another credit union but Lone Star came in …

I have been a member of the Police and Fire Federal Credit Union (PFFCU) for about seven years now. I must say that my overall experience with them as an financial institution has been excellent and I am happy to be a member. I enjoy being a …

Since times are getting hard in the United States many credit card companies are doing things in order to make more money off the dollars that you spend. For example, many credit card companies have decided that if you are charging things that could be used for living which …

Ok, so you CAN check your basic credit report from Experian here, but is is BASIC! The only way to get the “official Big 3″ reports is to sign up with their membership plan.
So I did, like a dummy. I received information about someone with my name, BUT …

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 …

I like knowing which credit cards are a good investment and which ones are a bad investment, and believe me: Applied bank unsecured visa gold credit card is a BAD investment. The idea behind the Applied bank unsecured visa gold credit card is to help people with bad credit …

This was the credit card that we used when we moved to Belgium for the first time. We opened a business account with ING bank in Belgium. And we asked if it’s possible to get a credit card from the bank for our business.
And since they said it’s possible …

I am so happy that finally people from Indonesia can receive payment from Paypal. Few years ago, we were trying to set up an International business from Indonesia. But since most buyer were using Paypal for payment, we could not really grow so fats on the business itself. Few …

I am western union customer for three years. Since I came to U.S. I trusted western Union with remittance but not anymore… My sister text me that she needs some money for enrollment. I call the western union and the customer service verified my name, address, phone, mother’s maiden, …

I’ll be the first to admit, I never really considered using the banking services of First National bank, even though it is among the big four banks in South Africa, but Standard Bank and ABSA are probably the biggest of the big four.
What made me go to FNB
In all …

Bank Mandiri is one of the largest bank in Indonesia. I think before there were few banks which were merged together to become one bank. And now it’s called Bank Mandiri.
Althougt it is one of the largest bank in Indonesia, they don’t really have special service that the other …

I’ve been trying to trade my e-gold for other online currencies and I found out about Moneybookers through a friend. It works like other online currencies or payment options in the internet. The company is UK based and has a good track record. I love that you don’t get …

I opened an account with Charter One about 5 years ago and over time their service has only gotten better.
Their checking accounts are free plus you can get what they call “over draft protection” This is a 500 dollar line of credit that covers anything that goes through if …

With identity theft being such a prevalent crime within the united State and all around the world because of the internet, I find that a lot of websites are doing everything they can to keep their customer information secure. This is because of the fact that when something is …

I recently applied for a Virgin credit card mainly because of the 0% transfer for 9 months offer they had on .
One of the features with this card is that you get a 10% discount at Virgin stores and this is for any online purchases too.
Competitiveness of APR was …

I’ve got a Standard Chartered Mastercard. It’s really quite nice to have it because it is accepted worldwide. With this credit card, I can shop online and almost anywhere I go. I had other credit cards issued by other banks but what I like about Standard Chartered is their …

I recently ordered replacement checks from Designer Checks. I was very pleased with the service and the quality. I often receive flyers in the mail advertising this company, so I decided to give it a try.
I went to the website (www.designerchecks.com), which was very user …

I went to the Public Bank Branch at Bayu Perdana in Malaysia. During lunch hour, there is a long queue waiting for banking transactions. The number I get is 1104 to be called. The screen showing that the number latest is only 1005. I still have …

I’m not into going bash this company or anything. I could if I wanted to but that isn’t going to happen. I will say that there were huge things that should have been worked on. And there are things that should have been changed. I don’t think that it …

When it comes to online payment services, paypal.com gives the most reliable and prompt service. I started using this service when demands for online jobs started to increase. I signed up for a paypal account since most of my employers required paypal account. It was very easy to apply …

HSBC Premier has a great customer service in the United States. I have found that no matter what time of the day or night I call, I always get through to a real human being. What I like is that it is a properly manned and professionally …

I opened an account with Trade Freedom Canada primarily because I wasn’t all that happy using the investment account that was offered by my bank. Unfortunately Trade Freedom turned out to be even worse.
One of the reasons I switched was that I wanted an online broker that offered better …

Once when I had a problem with the car and needed some money rather quickly I used a company called paydayloans.co.uk I had received some mail from them in the past and decided to see what they could offer me.
All I needed to do was fill in a form …

I had been dabbling with selling shoes on Ebay and as sales had taken off, I thought I had better get around to opening a business account instead of using my personal account. I was not an HSBC customer but it was nearby so I just popped in …

Nowadays, many business opportunities online use Clickbank as their collection agency. The company is in fact, almost as popular as Paypal. However, Clickbank has a very limited coverage compared to Paypal.
When I was about to open an account with Clickbank …

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, …

Income assistance or welfare for short, was my next stop after my request for unemployment benefits was denied by the government. This ordeal began on July 21, 2009.
This only proves how the Canadian government is brimming with bureaucracy, lots of paperwork with no substance. The Canadian government is …

The Forex.com web site is all about the global market of foreign exchange, also known as forex. As a person interested in forex, I was happy to find it. Forex.com has many services that can help you in your forex trading.
Forex is a huge market where billions and trillions …

Eon debit card is a product of Union bank. It is actually an atm/debit card but can be used to transact online just like a credit card. It is accepted in any establishment that accepts visa.
Doing transactions online has always been a problem to me because I do …

The Goldpak money for jewelry program is just one of the many which promise you top dollar for your jewelry which you are no longer using or may not consider valuable anymore. They pitch the idea by telling you that gold and silver are at their highest points of …

This is the second time I have approached these guys for a short-term loan, like Money Mart or Mogo Money, but to no avail. To be honest, I am starting to wonder how this company stays in business. Primarily what attracted me to inquire about the company …

It’s almost two years since I have been using Icici Credit cards and everything was going smooth so far. I was maintaining a good reputation with the company as I always paid my bills on time and was using the card prudently. So far I had no problems …

About a couple of months ago, I had to close out an old checking account because someone decided to hack into my records. I didn’t want to go through another headache and I wanted to bank somewhere that wouldn’t cause me problems; therefore, I decided to open a new …

I have had good and bad experience with this particular financial company. In the past I used to have one of their credit cards, and for the most part it was just a regular credit card. I’d just get small stuff on it, gas, sundries and sometimes even pay a …

Need a New Car? Is your credit not exactly great? I’ve been there, done that…got a car for it!
About a year ago the car that I had owned for about six years was on its last leg, so I decided to take the plunge and try to get …

This is a bank that I had seen advertised in a business magazine that I picked up on a flight last month. The ad basically said that this was a bank that liked to keep things simple by offering you the ability to bank online without minutes. It said …

In March last year, I got myself a DLSU-Union Bank Credit Card as this was being adamantly pushed by a staff in the DLSU Alumni Office. I thought I could use another credit card for emergencies and getting a co-branded product may not be a bad idea after all. …

I was hoping to open an account with Banco de Oro. But before I go to one of their branch offices, I wanted to know the requirements to open an account, so I called their 1-800 number hoping to talk to a bank representative. I spent three hours pressing …

My grandmother has been banking with the same bank for the majority of my life. When it was time to venture out and get my on account, I decided that I would try a different bank. My experience with them was less than satisfactory. I ended up going to …

Egold is yet another payment processor. It is unique in its own way & has got better security check than many of its counterpart. Every time we login, they send us a confirmation code in our email so that in case our email account so that nobody is …

I have been using my Mercury Drug-Citibank Card for close to a year now. Back then, when I was contemplating on getting another more, my friend who used to work in Citibank recommended this.
Apparently, the credit card is marketed as a health and wellness supplement and ties-up with …

I never really thought I’d do this, you know, write a GOOD review about a bank, especially with the slew of bank bailouts from the government to ill-managed, greedy bank executives, but I am pleased to know that the bank I use, US Bank Corp, did need some TARP funds, …

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 …

I used PNC’s Online Student Loan Services to cover my second year of tuition for my undergraduate degree and have worked with them since for various educational funding processes. I had shopped around for a suitable loan for some time, but none were as reasonable as PNC. I even …