Over a year ago I wrote, “Maybe Don’t Keep Your Money in Fintech Companies (Neobank)?” and one of the main reason I gave was “fintech partners with FDIC-insured banks but fintech themselves aren’t FDIC insured”. We saw how ugly it got with Beam and now we are seeing it all…
Uphold Debit Card: 2% and 4% Cashback: Review
by SJSJ
April 20, 2026
As mentioned in an earlier post, I have been searching for a “fun” debit card to replace my existing ones. I recently reviewed the 1% and 3% debit cards from MetaMask (which are effectively 1% cards). It turns out that both Uphold debit cards are now working again in the…
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Frontier is a budget airline and as with other budget airlines, you have to pay extra to select a seat. The “best” seats in Frontier are the UpFront Plus seats, which can be free with a Diamond Status. The “preferred/exit row seats” are the next best thing which can be…
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One (Finance) Debit Card IS Good
May 26, 2024One (formerly known as One Finance), a fintech company, has been a matter of discussion in this for a while. For example, shutdown due to Crypto, 5% APY, $50 direct deposit offer for existing users, and 3% on Walmart have been discussed in this blog. Today, we will specifically look…
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Workaround to Frontier Glitch on GoWild Booking
May 17, 2024Today, May 16, 2024, Frontier introduced some updates to the booking system. This has made the “basic fare” of GoWild tickets unbookable online. See the screenshot of what the new booking interface looks like. You can, however, book GoWild tickets at any other price but the “basic fare”. In other…
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Frontier Brings Back Call Service for Customers
May 16, 2024Frontier, a budget airline, removed telephone call service in November of 2022 (CNBC) as it fully transitioned to a (lackluster) chat service. Now, over a year and a half later (to be precise, call centers have been operational since 1st of May 2024), Frontier has brought back its call service…
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Up to $200 Travel Credit on a DEBIT Card?
May 13, 2024Venti, a fintech company that gives APY on your cash holding in the form of travel credit, appears to be launching a debit card. I have written about Venti here but in short, I think their take is super interesting but I haven’t been a fan of how they have…
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Is this the Death of Yotta?
May 10, 20245/10/2024 Update: Roughly 10 days after this article was written, we Yotta has an email stating that effective immediately, Yotta has discontinued paying rewards on saving balances, paychecks, and card spend. This is most likely the final death blow to Yotta. If you still have balance on Yotta, maybe it…
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Is Venti Worth It? 9% APY on up to $25,000
April 23, 20244/23/2024 Update: Venti is now allowing users to redeem points for AirTags at a rate of 30 points for 1 AirTag and 85 points for 4 AirTags. Since 1 point is worth a dollar towards travel, you could view this as 4 AirTags in exchange for $85 worth of travel…
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Recently Frontier introduced UpFront Plus seats in the first two rows. It got a lot of mixed to negative comments from the travel space community (OMAAT, TPG). What is UpFront Plus? Until recently frontier had 4 premium (extra legroom) rows (first three and then one exit row seat). Recently frontier…
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Unbanned from Citi Bank. Back with Citi after 5 years!
April 6, 2024Almost 5 years ago I wrote “Citi Shutdown: Citi Closed All My Credit Cards“. At that time it was one of the earliest publically reported shutdown reasons for “too many recently opened accounts”. I had made two reinstatement requests (one of which was made directly to Citi while another was…
