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Best Credit Cards For Foreign Travel
By 5.16.07
What credit cards charges the least for overseas purchases?
Citibank's "All-Electronic Program" Sends Paper Notice Stating Account Is Available To View Online
By 5.12.07
After enrolling in Citibank’s “All-Electronic Program,” FiveCentNickel was surprised to find the following notice in his mailbox:
Your Citibank statement is now available at http://www.citicards.com/. This notification is part of the All-Electronic Program you enrolled in to receive your statements online only instead of in the mail.
How counterintuitive. If Citi needs to send mail, why not send the account statement, rather than a notice that the statement is available online? Better yet, send neither. Or at least change the name to something more accurate, like the “Mostly, But Not Quite All-Electronic Program.” — CAREY GREENBERG-BERGER
Scrounged Up Bank's Fee Schedules
By 4.27.07
After more digging, we ferreted out some of those notoriously hard to find bank’s fee schedules. These list all the fees a bank can levy against a consumer’s personal checking or savings account. Most are buried to some extent, limiting consumer’s abilities to shop around.
Reclaim Unnecessary Credit Cards' Unnecessary Foreign Transaction Fees
By 4.10.07
Several major credit card companies were successfully and recently class-actioned for charging unnecessary fees for overseas transactions.
Universities Settle Allegations Of Citibank Kickbacks For Student Loan Referrals
By 4.3.07
Eight universities agreed to stop accepting kickbacks from Citibank for private loan referrals, and five agreed to refund a total of $3.27 mil to thousands of students, following an investigation by NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (pictured).
Walkthrough: Citi 0% Balance Transfer
By 1.9.07
Blueprint For Financial prosperity has a screen by screen walkthrough for initiating a Citibank 0% balance transfer.
Can Banks Please Stock Working Pens?
By 12.15.06
How is it that banks can move millions of dollars in a second over a bit of metal wire, but can’t stock working pens at the branch?
Reduce Credit Card APR: It Never Hurts To Ask
By 11.2.06
Acambras got her Citibank APR dropped from 13.99% to 2.99% just by asking.
Out Damned Spot! Help A Reader Clean His Citibank Credit
By 9.13.06
Ben — a man with perfect credit — needs help. Not Ben Popken, editor of this Mickey Mouse pajama publication. Ben A. — one of our most prolific tipsters.
Hedge Fund Notes Disconnect Between Bank Strategy and Execution. Duh.
By 8.14.06
Second Curve Capital is a hedge fund, managing hogsheads of cash in long-term investments on the stocks of banks and financial services. Most of the year is spent over ponderous goblets of brandies, smoking fine cigars at financiers’ gentlemen’s clubs, absorbing the exuberance and doldrums of bank CEOs and presidents.
Blogobitchin!
By 7.25.06
• Freezing Conan O’ Brian? Bad customer service we can understand, Comcast, but that’s just vindictive. [Kevin Green]
Thunder Before The Storm? Another Citibank Account ‘Compromised’
By 6.2.06
Buckle yourselves in, boys and girls. Is this email we just received from Kate H. the first rumbling of another massive slate of Citibank security breaches?
Interviewing The Victims Of Identity Theft
By 5.2.06
The Dayton Daily News has a good article up interviewing the victims of identity theft and describing how their lives have changed because of it. Although we’re all concerned by the murky underworld of Eastern European hackers that prey upon badly secured financial records, the article is a good reminder that most identity theft actually originates with people close to you: friends, relatives and (natch) employees of the very institutions you trust to keep your financial details safe.
