Banking

No Longer Just for the Moneyed, Financial Advisors Are Coming After All of Us

by May 23rd, 2013

Financial advisors are no longer for the wealthy. They’re now paying attention to the mass market.

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Bustillos on Bitcoins

by April 2nd, 2013

Maria Bustillos on the rise of bitcoin for the New Yorker’s new tech blog, Elements, is excellent and readable.

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Banking Customer Service

by April 1st, 2013

Felix Salmon had a really difficult time requesting a simple document from Citibank and wrote a post about his experience on Medium.

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Alternative Bank of America Email Alerts

by March 27th, 2013

Bank of America Alert.

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Why I Was Sad to Leave Goldman Sachs (But Also Ready to Move On)

by March 19th, 2013

Kelley Robinson began working in the operations department of Goldman Sachs after she graduated from college. She quickly learned that her passions weren’t in finance, and is moving on to a more inspiring career.

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A Conversation with Helaine Olen About the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industrial Complex

by March 14th, 2013

A conversation with financial journalist Helaine Olen about everything that’s wrong in the personal finance industrial complex.

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I Emailed the CEO of Bank of America to Fix My Credit Score (And He Did)

by March 13th, 2013

My most recent discovery is entirely credit score related—perhaps not as exciting as pizza drug deals, but also maybe for some people far MORE exciting.

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The Bank and the Typo that Ruined a Man’s Life

by March 11th, 2013

The most tragic part of this story is mentioned in the very first sentence.

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A Friendly Conversation with a Banker

by March 5th, 2013

Banker: I’m 28 and am a vice president at a large global bank where I’m currently earning about $250,000 a year. I grew up in the South, went to public school, then a private college. I got an internship on Wall Street, and then a full-time job.

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Sorry About This Year’s Bonus

by February 19th, 2013

Because we all need advice on how to break bad news about paltry bonuses we’ll be receiving (just kidding, never).

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