finance management

A new iPhone application Toshl has been recently launched to help consumers better manage their finances. The new app poses as an expense tracker with a twist, letting you enter your expenses into your iPhone and view, analyze, and export your spending data on your home computer.

Purchases are organized according to tags created by a user instead of predefined categories which makes it more flexible for most purposes. A typical expense is added very easily: a consumer just needs to enter the price, tap his/her existing tag and press Save.

Yodlee, Inc., the leading provider of online and mobile personal finance management (PFM) and payments solutions, and Money Dashboard, an online, personal finance management solution for UK consumers, plans to open the Money Dashboard personal finance management portal, powered by Yodlee PersonalFinance(TM), becoming available  to all UK consumers in the first half of 2010.

 Bank of America reported that starting December its customers will be sent a special Credit Card Clarity Commitment which will inform them on rates, fees, and payment details. Bank of America is the first bank to provide each cardholder with a clear and simple explanation of this kind.

 Charles Schwab today released a series of financial planning and investing tips to help individual investors better manage their finances and investing plans as global markets rebound and the economy begins to recover. 

 Chase Card Services has launched a suite of business cards Ink that was developed specifically for small businesses. This business card portfolio includes four distinct cards "to deliver on the unique needs of small business owners and marks Chase’s introduction of a pay-in-full charge card – a first from issuers of Visa or MasterCard."