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Mint Adds Loans, Mortgages, CC APR Changes

Popular personal-finance management site has added some cool new features. You can now add your student and auto loans, monitoring balances and getting reminders when it's payment time. Over 1000 lenders were added. Mortgages are now supported, letting you set auto-reminders for when payments are due. The site also now tracks your credit card interest rate, sounding the klaxons when your rate goes up. This gives you a chance to negotiate a better rate (here's a sample script) or port your balance to a lower-rate card (here's how). More banks and other features have been added, with investment and home value support on the way, bringing it closer to the promise of being your free one-stop total web-based personal finance dashboard.

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10:13 AM on Tue Jul 29 2008
By Ben Popken
2,729 views, 34 comments

Latest by alu: still no support for Citizen's Bank. there's users requesting access all over the forums and a petition. this has been an more »

personal finance

Mint.com's Plans For Portfolio Recommendations

I asked Mint.com whether they would be adding some features to their new investment tracking tool similar to what they do with credit cards and banks. When you add your credit cards and banks to Mint, it has a section where they recommend different credit cards to switch to and show you how much savings or lower APR you can get. In response, CEO Aaron Patzer said that in the future they will identify the lowest cost brokerage for you based on how often you trade and with how much money, as well as, and, this is very important, exposing management fees and expense ratios.Very cool. Investors could really benefit by such transparent access to investing-rleated feesFor a good perspective on how fees can really chew up your nest egg, read our post, "How Your 401(k) Is Ripping You Off"

3:06 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Ben Popken
1,671 views, 9 comments

Latest by dalejo: @facted: Given Mint's track record of not responding technically to technical questions, I wouldn't take their word for it. Yodlee more »

personal finance

Review Of Mint.com's New Investment-Tracking Features

I got to check out personal finance management site Mint.com's new investment-tracking component before the private beta launches tomorrow. You can now add Brokerage, IRA, 401k and 529 assets. The two biggest things it offers are line graphs, and a way to see all the fees, dividends, deposits and withdrawals in one, clear, organized window. Unlike with the credit card tracking, they don't seem to be making any suggestions about how you might save money by switching to a different investment firm. You also can't yet push assets between accounts through Mint. As before, you will have to give up your username and password to your various financial services to let Mint scrape the data. The new brokerage features are hardly mind-blowing, but by having investment-tracking now Mint can basically be your entire financial dashboard, you just can't touch all the levers yet. Sexy screenshots, inside... More »

12:36 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Ben Popken
7,958 views, 18 comments

Latest by facted: @dalejo: From the way I understand it, Mint originally takes your username and password and sends it to Yoodle the more »

Personal finance management site Mint.com is launching a beta for its new investment tracking system on May 6th. [Mint]

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personal finance

Chase Rep Cancels Credit Card Because Of Mint

A hyper-vigilant Chase CSR canceled a woman's credit card and issued her a new one when she called in to confirm her interest rate, because Mint was showing a slightly higher rate. A Mint representative confirms that "while we can generally get pretty good info about APR, APR can vary widely by customer & there won't always be a 100% match (that's why we allow customers to edit their account information)." More »

7:21 PM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Chris Walters
8,013 views, 17 comments

Latest by thbarnes: @howie_in_az: Because HSBC and Bank of America are such great bastions of privacy and corporate security. more »

money

Why Do You Hate The Dollar Coin?

Our beloved U.S. Mint has apparently redesigned the dollar coin to feature a rotating slate of Presidents. Each President gets a three-month stint on the coin. On Thursday, James Madison, our 4th Chief Executive, took his rightful place on the golden slab - but nobody seemed to care. Why? More »

9:36 AM on Sun Nov 18 2007
By Carey
9,822 views, 152 comments

Latest by EatTheWitch: Phase out the dollar bills (slowly) and pennies (like yesterday). Use the penny slot in cash registers for the more »

identity theft

Mint.com Responds To Security Concerns

Some people think that using Mint.com is crazy because of the security risk of handing over all your banking user names and passwords. FiLife asks them some tough questions about their security procedures and gets straight answers, like:

Let's say you get hacked. Banks normally would protect me if they get hacked, but do I lose my protection if I'm using Mint to access the bank but the breach happens through your systems? You're legally protected for $0 liability on credit cards and $50 on bank accounts if fraud is reported within two days. These rights are not voided by using Mint, Yodlee, Quicken, Microsoft Money or similar programs.
They also say all user names and passwords are kept on Yodlee's servers, not anyone else's. Every lock can be picked, but we're more concerned about identity theft resulting from our local big box retailer's lax security procedures than from Mint.com.

[FiLife]

5:38 PM on Tue Oct 23 2007
By Ben Popken
4,310 views, 15 comments

Latest by N/A: The critical flaw with Mint is that it makes the procedure of entering bank login information part of the routine. If more »

Mint.com Initial Review Mint.com, a new free personal finance management site, is easy to get started, though we're not sure we're completely satisfied with where we end up.

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budgets

Mint.com - A New Free Personal Finance Management Site

The free personal finance management site Mint.com opened to the public today.

Via a pleasing interface, Mint allows users to add their credit card and account information, then autosyncing with your financial institutions to grab every single one of your transactions. Each purchase is automatically categorized by type, a significant timesaver when getting started with a budget. From there, Mint tracks your spending habits, identifies areas you can find savings, and allows a complete at-a-glance overview of your personal finances, along with a slew of other features.

Looks to be a great site for getting an easy handle on your money.

Mint.com [Official Site]

6:03 PM on Tue Sep 18 2007
By Ben Popken
6,366 views, 33 comments