Personal Finance Buzz

The high yield savings account at Sallie Mae bank is now offering an Annual Percentage Yield of 1.40%. A quick look at my list of the best online savings accounts will show you that this brings Sallie Mae to the front of the line for standard, no minimum balance required accounts.

To be perfectly honest, I’m not sure that the 1,000th thing to come to mind would be a savings account. Yet, Sallie Mae has recently launched just that, and with a current savings rate of 1.25%, its worth a look.

I recently got an email from a reader asking me about the Sallie Mae savings account. I had never heard of it so I thought I would check it out. It turns out that the Sallie Mae account has the highest interest rate of any savings or money market account that I found.

Sick of barely existant interest rates and all sorts of confusing fees for your saving account? Take a look at Ally Bank and their online high yield savings account in our review.

Discover Bank is offering one of the best high-yield savings accounts available. Here’s our review, updated after nine months of using the account.

Discover, yes the same Discover that runs Discover Cards, has it’s own bank. For a while now I’ve known about this bank, but just didn’t take the time to give it a full review. I’m here today to share what I know about this bank, in particular, their online savings account.

Discover Bank has some of the highest interest rates in the country and all of their accounts are FDIC insured. Here is a Discover Bank review and why you might want to consider opening an account.

Zions Bank, member FDIC, is one of the oldest and most well respected banks in America. Their online savings account currently offers a high interest rate.

Ally Bank offers some of the best interest rates available, an easy sign up process, and I decided to take the plunge. Here's my look at signing up for an account at Ally Bank.