Oct 19

If you are looking for online access to Bank and thrift financial reports, Datagy.net might be the right choice for you. They provide you with performance analysis reports, regulatory information as well as credit union financials and much much more. As it can be very overwhelming to look into an ocean of financial information held by banks, financial lenders, credit unions or bank-holding companies and wade through it, Datagy can help you turn all the data into useful targeted information that you are looking for.

Since the internet era began, all kinds of regulatory information and data is swarming the globe via the internet and many of those reports are being released into the public earlier than ever before. There are a lot of companies that need real-time access to this kind of critical information. Datagy apparently provide their customers with access to these data at no extra cost.

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Tags: Data, Data Strategy

Oct 17

In an interview with News Insurances, Jesus Carmona, CEO of Axa Travel Insurance, discusses the financial results of 2010 and the companies ambitions for 2012.

The year 2010 was an important year for Axa Travel Insurance.

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Tags: Axa Travel, Axa Travel Insurance, Ceo, Travel Insurance

Oct 14

The Federal Reserve has recently announced that it will be keeping interest rates that banks pay to borrow money at 0 0.25% for the foreseeable future. This is done in the hopes of encouraging borrowers and spenders, but punishes savers. This makes it harder than ever to find the best place to let your emergency fund grow. But just because its difficult to find a place to make your money work harder for you doesnt mean you should let it sit idle in a low yield bank account!

While its easy to find places to stash your cash that pay more than the average bank savings account (currently 0.08%!), high yield isnt the most important thing when looking for a home for your emergency fund.

The two most important factors to determining where to keep your emergency cash are:

  1. Safety
  2. Liquidity

Safety is a measure of short term risk.

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Oct 12

As major banks continue to pile on debit card fees, many consumers are re-evaluating their decision to use debit cards. As a free product, debit cards were a great way for consumers to avoid debt and interest payments while retaining instant access to cash. But with most large banks contemplating debit card fees, the benefits of using debit cards over credit cards are growing more dubious by the day.

The majority of credit card holders carry a balance. Unless they are doing so on cards that offer a 0% APR on balance transfers and purchases, this means they are incurring debt and paying interest while borrowing money for purchases they cannot afford. To break the cycle of indebtedness, debit cards have become increasingly popular in recent years.

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Tags: Card Fees, Cards, Debit Card, Debit Card Fees

Oct 09

As banks continue their efforts to try to lure more customers into opening accounts, many are now turning in greater numbers to those consumers who have subpar credit ratings.

New data from Equifax shows the number of new credit card accounts issued to subprime borrowers jumped 64 percent in the first half of the year to a total of 5.4 million, according to a report from Dow Jones Newswires. However, that rate is still well below the 14.7 million cards issued to those with credit scores below 660 in the same period in 2007, before the onset of the national recession.

Data from Synovate illustrates that Citi was the most active in granting accounts to subprime borrowers, accounting for about one-third of all offers sent to those consumers in the third quarter of the year, the report said. Read more…

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