Global rings of crooks are stealing the bank accounts of thousands of the elderly, using lists of names and phone numbers sold to them by corporate America, NYT reports.
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Best Credit Cards For Foreign Travel
By 5.16.07
What credit cards charges the least for overseas purchases?
Oh, You Use Quicken Or Microsoft Money? That'll be $5.95 Per Month
By 5.12.07
Wachovia is charging customers a $5.95 monthly fee to access their accounts through Quicken or Microsoft Money. The fee, which took effect April 1, aligns Wachovia with the 27% of banks that penalize consumers who access their accounts through money management software.
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.
Top 5 Online Banks For Customer Satisfaction
By 4.25.07
You can’t please all of the people all of the time, but you can try. Here’s a list of the online banks that are trying the hardest.
Cingular: More Banks On The Mobile Banking Bandwagon
By 3.29.07
AT&T Inc. said on Tuesday it has taken a step toward the long-promised notion of phones replacing credit cards, checks and cash by signing agreements with Wachovia Corp. (WB.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and several other banks.
Customer Satisfaction At All Time High
By 2.20.07
University of Michigan’s American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) increased to an overall 74.9 score out of 100 in the fourth quarter of 2006, its highest level since the survey first started in 1994. That’s a gain of almost 2 percent from the previous year and a 0.7 increase from the previous quarter.
So who is winning and who is losing?
Bank of America: Most Downtime for a Major Banking Website
By 11.14.06
With that in mind, if you prefer to bank online Bank of America might not be the choice for you, as bank website downtime has to be one of the most annoying things ever. Several banks had less than four minutes of downtime in the same period—effectively operating at 100%, including Wachovia and Washington Mutual. Yippie! — MEGHANN MARCO
Wachovia Apologizes For Locking Old Man In Bank
By 9.13.06
Robyn submitted a complaint on the Wachovia website about Monday’s unfortunate incident. This was their swift response:
Time to Human, Banks, Day 5
By 4.21.06
Ring ring, Mr. Banker, pick up the phone, we hit the stopwatch and hang up. Here are the results.
Time to Human, Banks, Day 4
By 4.20.06
Today’s results in our week-long test of how long it takes banks humanoids to pick up the ring ring ring.
Time to Human, Banks, Day 3
By 4.19.06
The results of today’s benchmark test to see how long it takes banks’ live humans to pick up the phone.
Time to Human, Banks, Day 1
By 4.17.06
We’ll be calling up the banks this week to see who’s the quickest at having a human pick up the phone.
