What is the best, easiest, fastest way to save money? A high interest savings account? Or a micro-investing app like Raiz or Spaceship Voyager? Both [...]
Do you know your savings account rate? The interest rate that your savings account pays you determines how much you will earn each month and [...]
An everyday transaction banking account is the base product for most people’s relationship with their bank. An everyday bank account is necessary to get paid [...]
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Xinja Bank is a new Australian online neobank. What is a neobank? A neobank is an online bank, probably based around a mobile phone banking [...]
For years young Aussies have been portrayed as big spending, “smashed avo” eating, party animals with little interest in saving and buying a first home. [...]
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The best savings account rates in Australia are now around 2.0% to 2.50% pa. To get a high rate, savers need to compare savings accounts [...]
When you open a savings account it’s for one reason only – to grow your money. Obviously, when you’re comparing savings accounts, you’ll be looking [...]
Everyone wants to be a millionaire, but far too many people believe that this is only possible through inheritance or blind luck. While this is [...]
The RBA has set interest rates in Australia at all-time lows and may cut rates yet again in the near future. CPI inflation in December [...]
An everyday transaction banking account is a basic necessary tool of modern life. Australian banks have recently committed to strengthening the protections for Aussies who [...]
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The RBA has rates set at all-time lows and may cut rates yet again in the near future. CPI inflation has edged up to 1.7 [...]
Micro-investing apps make investing easy, you link your internet banking login details to the app, set up a savings/investment plan and watch your money grow, [...]
NAB and Westpac have announced new cuts to some savings account rates. All four big banks have cut their savings account rates in the last [...]
If you’re moving to Australia for study then one of the most important things you need to do is to open a bank account that [...]
What is Osko? Osko, in short, is a new way to pay people, businesses and transfer money between bank accounts using Australia’s New Payments Platform [...]
What is cardless cash? Cardless cash means withdrawing cash from an ATM without a card. Spoiler alert – it’s done with your mobile phone. It’s [...]
The Australian Government guarantees deposits, up to $250,000, that are held in Authorised Deposit-taking Institutions (ADIs)– also known as banks and credit unions. The government [...]
Xinja Bank is a new kind of bank that is not yet fully operational. In the next few months Xinja will launch new accounts and [...]
The Powerball jackpot this week is the biggest in Australian history at $150 million. One in three Aussie adults is expected to play this week's [...]
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InfoChoice – your home for information on the Commbank app Almost six million Aussies use the Commbank app, two thirds of all CBA customer transactions [...]
Your bank account is how you manage your everyday finances, receive your salary or Centrelink benefits, pay bills and withdraw cash from ATMs. You can’t [...]
Notice saver accounts are a fairly new product to the Australian savings account scene. They’re a handy hybrid of term deposits and on-call savings accounts. [...]
There is a titanic battle playing out right now, behind the scenes, between Australia’s big banks, the Morrison government, the Reserve Bank, global credit card [...]
In the olden days (which means the 1970s at the most recent…), your savings account was a dull, stolid sort of investment vehicle that was [...]
By Jason Bryce Prime Minister Scott Morrison famously believes in miracles and now I do too. I have just received my personal ‘dividend’ payment from [...]
Your guide to switching banks Australians are more likely to get divorced than change their bank. But thanks to a number of government regulations in [...]
Afterpay is part of a new wave of ‘Buy now, Pay later’ apps and online wallets that is sweeping the world. Afterpay allows you to [...]
Do you remember the ‘Dollarmites’ school savings program that Commonwealth Bank offers to primary schools around Australia? It still exists—with CBA offering a range of [...]
Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, NAB and ANZ have all cut their savings account and term deposit rates in recent weeks. Base rates on savings accounts are [...]
Getting into the habit of saving money can be the factor that makes all the difference to your security later on in life. If you [...]
Australian interest rates are at an all-time low at the moment and this means that all of the country’s banks had to follow suit and [...]
When you open a bank account that offers interest, whether it’s a transaction account or a dedicated savings account, you’ll probably have to supply the [...]
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Sometimes it can feel like you’re doing everything right, but still not seeing results. Benjamin Franklin said, “a small leak will sink a great ship” [...]