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Which bank and why?
Since few days I am a very good customer of Fortis.
Not because I like them so much, but because they granted me a loan...
And thus, most of my activities are located over there, because they kindly requested such thing before granting the loan.
To be truthful, nothing changed much from the situation before. I am already a customer of Fortis since I was 12, getting my first card back then. -which was already early-adopted... thanks to my parents who decided their children should know the value of money by being responsible for their own savings.-
I have an account at Dexia too. At 16 I decided relying on only one bank was horrible especially when one day my card wasn't working anymore and I couldn't get any money.- Dexia had the best conditions in those days.
13 years later a lot has changed: internet banks are available, and we can access all bank offices to withdraw money with a card from a different bank. The reasons why I decided to rely on Fortis or Dexia are not valuable anymore.
I'll have to stick to Fortis for the next 25 years, but I am seriously thinking of changing my Dexia account to somewhere else.
Rabobank for example has much higher interest rates and the account is for free -but it has no bank or creditcards available-
My needs?
I want a Mastercard Gold -it has a travel insurance included in the price, thus making it very cheap for me-
I want a savings account with high interest.
I want internet banking.
And a card off course, allowing to withdraw money out of a wall.
What would you advice me, and why?
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Posted on October 31, 2006
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Tell me when you find such thing. I'm looking for such a bank as well. Actually, the only thing that is important to me is a very good web-based (no desktop software) banking service.
I don't really care about the interests, they're all lying about it, so you'll never know when you've got a deal. I just don't want to pay ANY costs, it's ridiculous, you give all your money to them and you even have to pay them for keeping it...
I wish Paypal had a credit card...
Posted by Bart | November 1, 2006 2:12 AMargenta.be is free.
Posted by ine | November 1, 2006 9:52 AMthough a 12% charge when you go below 0
I gave my comments at Bruno's post about this topic. You can read them at http://blog.volume12.net/3494.htm
Posted by Perre | January 10, 2007 11:28 AM