The balance of your checking accounts says a lot more about your financial fitness than you realize. While most conventional financial wisdom centers around building a big portfolio of savings and ...

Martin Dasko has been helping millennials make sense of their finances without missing out on what life has to offer since 2008. He started his financial writing career as a business major at Ryerson ...

What is a high-yield checking account and how exactly do they work? A high-yield checking account is a type of checking ...

A traditional checking account, also called standard or basic, is your bare-bones account. “These accounts are very easy to access,” said Matt Hicks, vice president of deposit products and member ...

Liliana Hall was a writer for CNET Money covering banking, credit cards and mortgages. Previously, she wrote about personal credit for Bankrate and CreditCards.com. Checking account fees eat away at ...