Personal Finance Advice and Commentary

Here are three tips to ease into the transition of life as a saver.

The FDIC proposed a new rule that would clarify FDIC-insurance status of deposits in foreign branches of U.S. banks.

A U.S. Senate procedural vote on a TAG extension for insurance on certain transaction accounts had been delayed.

Banks need to notify their customers that expanded deposit insurance for noninterest-bearing transaction accounts is set to expire Dec. 31.

More of the nation’s credit unions are beginning to offer mobile check deposit services.

Eighty state and community banking groups sign letter asking Congress to extend TAG deposit insurance for noninterest-bearing transaction accounts.

$250 billion. That’s how much money consumers added to their bank accounts in the last three months of 2011, according to Market Rates Insight, or MRI, a San Anselmo, Calif.-based company that provides competitive pricing data to financial institutions. Total deposits, including those made to overseas branches of U.S. banks, increased $183 billion in the fourth

This week Italy became the latest European country to edge closer to catastrophic default, as interest rates on its 10-year government bonds topped 7 percent. As a point of reference, 10-year U.S. Treasuries are currently cruising at 2.1 percent. Rates on Italian bonds are so high because global markets believe Italy is at a much