Personal Finance: What You Need To Know Today

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Personal finance and money management can be very confusing. Most people know that optimizing their finances is important but few feel confident that they have the knowledge to do so.

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Cash App Launches Green Status, Borrow Feature, and More

The popular peer-to-peer payments tool Cash App has unveiled a slate of updates and features, including a new loan product. What's New with Cash App: Today, Cash App officially announced 11 new features and updates. In fact, the company describes this as its "most significant product expansion to date." First up, the service revealed Cash App Green. Now, customers who either spend at least $500 per month using their Cash...
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Lessons From a First-Time Home Buyer: No, You Don't Want a 50-Year Mortgage

If you're like me, one of the most frightening parts of buying a house is just the idea that you'll be paying it off over the course of three whole decades! Now there's talk of creating a new option that goes beyond the 30-year mortgage: a 50-year mortgage. On the surface, the upsides to such a plan are obvious — but unfortunately, so are the sizeable downsides. So, should you want...
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Venmo Introduces Stash Rewards Program for Debit Cards

Venmo is reinventing its debit card rewards, allowing cardholders to earn up to 5% back. About Venmo Stash Rewards: This week, Venmo announced its new Venmo Stash program. With this unique debit card rewards offering, customers will be able to earn up to 5% back on purchases from popular brands — with their rewards rate increasing as they deepen their Venmo relationship. First, cardholders can earn 1% cashback on purchases...
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Walmart+ Offering Discounted Plan Ahead of Black Friday Sales

For a limited time, customers can save 50% off a Walmart+ membership. About the Walmart+ Discount: With the holiday shopping season now just around the corner, Walmart is offering a big discount on its Walmart+ membership. While an annual subscription to the service typically costs $98, the retailer is discounting this fee to $49. This offer is valid through December 2nd, 2025 and is not available to current annual subscribers....
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2025 U.S. Consumer Holiday Spending Expected to Top $1 Trillion

With the holiday shopping season just around the corner, estimates suggest that American shoppers could set a record this year — and cross a major milestone. About the Holiday Spending Forecast for 2025: This week, the National Retail Federation (NRF) released its annual holiday forecast. In it, they estimate that retail sales between November and December 2025 will total more than $1 trillion for the first time. Specifically, their research...
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The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life Book Review

Five years ago, I picked up the book The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel after seeing it on Amazon — and absolutely loved it. So, when I saw that he was releasing another book, I immediately pre-ordered. That book was 2023's Same as Ever, which I also enjoyed. That brings us to this year as The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life hit store shelves and,...
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Healthcare FinTech Cylerity Raises $28 Million in Capital

A FinTech focused on improving healthcare payments has raised a new round of funding. About Cylerity's Funding Round: Recently, Cylerity announced a total of $28 million in new funding. This includes a $4 million seed round and a $24 million debt facility. The "over-subscribed" equity portion of the round was led by HealthX Ventures, with C2 Ventures, Upstream Ventures, Wisconsin Investment Partners, and Tundra Angels also participating. First Business Bank established the debt facility....
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Lessons From a First-Time Home Buyer: The 5 Scariest Things We've Experienced as Homeowners (So Far)

This week is Halloween! It will actually be our second as homeowners and, if last year is anything to go by, we can expect at least a handful of trick-or-treaters (after having none at our apartment). But that's not really what I wanted to talk about. Instead, I thought I'd take this thematic opportunity to discuss some of the scary things — in all senses of the term — we've...
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2025 SoFi Checking and Savings Review

 Ever since I started taking an interest in the FinTech sector, one company whose name I’ve seen pop up over and over again is SoFi. That was later sent into overdrive as the company has not only become a household name thanks to its stadium naming rights deal but also because of the company’s continued product expansions. The most interesting development in my mind is SoFi’s acquisition of Golden Pacific...
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Best Western Debuts Two New Rewards Credit Cards

After pausing applications for their previous rewards card, the hotel chain Best Western has unveiled a new pair of rewards credit cards with a new issuer. About the Best Western cards: Best Western is partnering with First Bank & Trust and Mercury Financial to introduce two new co-branded credit cards. First up is the no-annual-fee Best Western Rewards Visa Signature Card. With this card, customers can 4x points on Best...
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Marriott Bonvoy Bold Card Launches Travel Contest

Chase and Marriott Bonoy have unveiled a special contest while continuing to offer its best-ever welcome bonus. About the welcome bonus and Bold Chat Court Contest: Marriott Bonvoy and Chase have launched a special opportunity called the Bold Chat Court contest. As part of this contest, 10 lucky travelers will be awarded 500,000 Marriott Bonvoy points (for a total of 5 million) as well as $5,000. For this contest, the...
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Bilt Adds 2 New Transfer Partners Including First 3:2 Transfer Rate

Bilt is once again expanding its travel transfer rewards program — and is even breaking the mold with one new partner. About the new additions to Bilt: This week, Bilt launched partnerships with two more travel brands: TAP Air Portugal and Accor. As a result, Bilt members will now be able to transfer their points to Miles&Go and ALL Reward, respectively. In total, Bilt now has 18 transfer partners including 13...
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PayPal Debit Card Review: Earn Stackable 5% Cash Back

In recent weeks, PayPal debuted an updated debit card product (perhaps you've seen the incessant Will Ferrell commercials for it during football games?). With the launch of this card, the company known for online payments is encouraging customers to pay with them anywhere. To encourage such behavior, the debit card allows cardholders to earn 5% cashback — although, as you can imagine, there are some important restrictions on that. So,...