Archive for May 2012

By Doresa Banning

Account Type: Credit Card

Category: 0 Percent Purchase APR

Category: 0 Percent Balance Transfer APR

If you're looking for a credit card with more than a year of no interest on purchases and balance transfers, you'd be hard-pressed to do worse than this card. Slate from Chase offers a 0 percent APR on purchases and balance transfers for 15 billing cycles with no balance transfer fee the first 60 days (after that, the balance transfer fee 3 percent of each amount transferred, minimum $5). It also does not charge an annual fee.

By Justin Boyle

Earlier this year, a couple of my good friends got married to each other. After a a few months and the initial jubilation passed, the time came to turn their attention to the more business-like aspects of sharing their lives -- and their finances...

By Doresa Banning

Account Type: Credit Card

Category: Purchase APR Reduction

Category: Rewards

Editor's Note: Thank you for your interest, this offer expired and is no longer available.

Along with other perks, the Citi Forward® Card for College Students is a student credit card that rewards users with purchase APR reductions and bonus points for paying their bills on time and remaining under their credit limit.

Fees:

• No annual fee
• Balance transfer fee: $5 or 4 percent of the amount transferred, whichever is greater
• See card offer for full terms and conditions

Citi Forward® Card for College Students

By Justin Boyle

I'm sure you remember the wild uproar among finance bloggers last year, when the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was signed into law. We went bananas about this! What had us the most in an uproar was a last-minute addition to the Act that focused on debit card interchange fees and promised to swing billions of dollars this way and that at the personal finance level...

By Marc Pearlman

Traveling to another country can be a really unique experience. The opportunity to see other cultures can really round out a person's perspective. Yes, while people are universally the same, cultures and customs can be dramatically different.

As varied as foreign customs, cultures and languages can be, traveling to a foreign country can be made easier...