Lifestyle and Budget

If you've been fretting about the Heartbleed bug, your time would be better spent protecting yourself against a bigger hacker threat that doesn't have a creepy name: Wiindows XP.

Banks are trying to keep up with the times, but their efforts don't appear to be working in social media.

At more than 800 U.S. colleges and universities, college students can access certain types of financial aid they receive via multipurpose debit cards.

The Internet and mobile technology have largely replaced the bank branch when it comes to day-to-day financial business. But we still need bank tellers.

A new survey shows 30% of Americans haven't been to a bank branch in the last six months--but it's not just the younger crowd that's not stopping in for a visit.

Many companies give themselves the right to change their service agreements whenever they like, sometimes without giving you a heads up.

If you’re reluctant to take someone’s personal check for fear that it’s no good, don’t assume that a cashier’s or bank check is any safer.

You may have the wrong impression of credit unions. The truth may surprise you.

The banking landscape is changing rapidly. How will you and your money be affected?

Ready to chat with your ATM? You may be able to do that and more at your cash machine.

If you’re like a lot of people affected by the recent theft of credit and debit card data from Target, your bank has cancelled one or more of your cards and reissued them with different account n...

First Target dropped the ball by failing to protect 40 million customers whose payment card data was stolen by hackers and another 70 million shoppers whose names, addresses, phone numbers, and e...

In part one of our three-part series on financial housekeeping for 2014 we covered checking your credit status and updating your budget.

While buyers speculate on bitcoins, the viability of the virtual currency is in doubt.

They offer higher returns in a low-yield world, but be sure to weigh the downsides.

Banks are networking with consumers, but will they ever allow actual transactions?

The massive security breach at Target, which involved the theft of data from 40 million customers' credit and debit card purchases, raises a new riddle for consumers: If you were one of the data ...

If you used your credit or debit card for holiday shopping between November 27 and December 15 this year at Target, the $73 billion-a-year (revenues) retailing giant, that big red bullseye is now...

The issue: Moving automatic bill payments and direct deposits to a new bank is a needlessly complicated, confusing process that can drag on for months.

Noticed anything unusual in your BJ’s, Costco, and Walmart aisles recently?