Online banking has made paper records largely unnecessary, but some people still prefer to manage their finances with a pen and paper. Passbook savings accounts provide an alternative to digital ...

Once thought of as a banking throwback, passbook savings accounts continue to offer individuals the opportunity to save, monitor and grow their funds using a simple, reliable account with minimal and ...

Parents often struggle with how to encourage their children to save. For younger kids, money tends to feel intangible compared with the things they want, like toys or clothes. There’s an old-fashioned ...

A new wave of customers has opened a traditional passbook savings account with Yorkshire Building Society while this summer's bank scandals started to unfold. The mutual saw a 33% rise in the number ...

“Mabel,” a reader of this column in her 90s, lost her savings account passbook recently — yes, a “passbook,” which is a holdover from a century ago when banks recorded savings accounts in a booklet ...

Last summer, the Seattle-based startup Remitly closed a $135 million round to go beyond money-transfer services into a wider range of financial products catering to its primarily-immigrant customer ...

Dear John: I’m a longtime reader of your column and a big fan of your common-sense answers. To solve my problem I believe that you’d need the wisdom of Solomon and the perseverance of Gandhi. While ...

In this corner, weighing in with a passbook showing they have $10,038 that's been sitting in a bank account since 1992, are Taft and Carol Parsons of Milwaukee. Their opponent across the ring is ...

A passbook loan is a type of secured loan that allows you to borrow against the funds in your savings account. Passbook loans can be useful for those looking to build or rebuild credit. “With a ...