Online Banking

Weekend Linkage: Online Banking, Tools and Automation

If there was no theme to last week's Weekend Linkage, this week is the complete opposite: each story draws directly from the Automatic Finances system for money management. Saving for Serenity lays out a plan for Automating Annual Expenses like birthday/anniversary/Christmas presents, offering two options: setting up subaccounts for specific goals, or having one bigger [...]

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Microsoft Money Discontinued, Thanks Online Banking

Microsoft Money is headed for the grave. The personal finance software, one of the big two desktop programs (along with Quicken), is being discontinued for sale at the end of this month. The reason? Banks and other online services are doing the job, according to a posting on Microsoft's Money site. With banks, brokerage firms [...]

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Ask the Readers: Does Going Green Affect Your Financial Choices?

This is a little late for Earth Day, but one of the arguments always made for banking online and going paperless is that it's environmentally-friendly. The fewer checks you write, the fewer paper statements you get, the more you use a debit card instead of cash, the fewer trees get cut down. For me, it's [...]

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Why Every Account You Have Needs a Name

As I'm helping more people manage their finances, I'm finding one common theme: people don't have names for their savings accounts. Instead of having multiple short-term savings accounts, they tend to only have one "savings account" that holds all of their money. If you're in this situation, you need to break out your savings into [...]

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Ask the Readers: Where Do You Bank Online?

Let's start off the week with a poll: where do you bank online? For so many of us, we have a ton of different accounts for different reasons: central checking, credit cards, savings, investments, and more. That's why account aggregators like Yodlee are so crucial to find where your money is going. Let us know [...]

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Can You Live a Completely Paperless Lifestyle?

As you spend more time banking online and paying your bills online, you'll realize that getting paper statements just seems outdated. Why do you need to get snail mail from your bank or service provider when you have access to a digital archive of all your actions? You don't. Living a completely paperless financial lifestyle, [...]

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17 Bills You Can Pay Online

People are often surprised at the number of things that can be paid for online. It's not just shopping at Amazon or bidding on things at eBay anymore — it's likely that all of your expenses can be paid online. From your insurance to your cell phone to your groceries, you can pay for it [...]

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