March 28, 2011
Credit Card
Affin Bank,
Alliance Bank,
American Express,
Cash Rebate,
CIMB Bank,
Citibank,
Hong Leong Bank,
Mastercard,
Maybank,
OCBC,
UOB,
VISA
Cash rebate credit cards are getting popular. More and more card issuers introduce cards with this features and many cardholders prefer this kind of benefits rather than reward points.
Due to so many choices, consumers may get confuse and do not know which card to apply. Hopefully, with this compilation or comparison, it will easier for them.
The table below is the list of cards that offers excellent cash rebate to the cardholders throughout the year. Bear in mind that cards that have limited time cash rebate or cash rebate promotions are excluded from the list.
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January 27, 2011
Banking
Alliance Bank,
Bank Muamalat,
CIMB Bank,
Citibank,
Hong Leong Bank,
HSBC,
Kuwait Finance House,
Maybank,
OCBC,
Priority Banking,
Public Bank,
RHB Bank,
Standard Chartered,
UOB
Priority banking is a preferential treatment service granted to a select group of customers in a bank usually to high net worth personal. They are usually invited to enjoy this service based on amount of deposits, investments or housing loan with the bank.
Refer to table in the later section of this post to see the minimum deposit to be eligible.
Some of the benefits offer by Priority Banking are;
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December 2, 2010
Fixed Deposit
Affin Bank,
Alliance Bank,
AmBank,
CIMB Bank,
Citibank,
Comparison,
Conventional,
EON Bank,
Hong Leong Bank,
HSBC,
Maybank,
OCBC,
Public Bank,
Rate,
RHB Bank,
Standard Chartered
Fixed Deposit is known to be one of the most secure investment but with a lower return. If you like to invest your money in fixed deposit you may choose from the list below to maximize your return.
Since July 2010, fixed deposit rate does not change very much because Bank Negara maintain the OPR at 2.75% since then. However, banks do make some adjustment to their rate.
The table below are the latest conventional fixed deposit rate as of December 2010.
You may look at this page for the most up to date rates. Alternatively you may want to look at Islamic Fixed Deposit or General Investment Account (GIA-i) rates.
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OCBC is upgrading their existing titanium credit card to offer an excellent cash rebate on all transaction made. The highest cash rebate is 5% based on spending made on petrol, grocery, bills and dining. On other transaction, they offering 1% rebate.
On top of cash rebate, they also offer sign-up offers such as 0% interest, 0% balance transfer and no annual fee for first year. For subsequent years annual fees will be waive with 12 times transaction on previous year.
OCBC also may pay your annual RM50 government service tax is you spend more than RM10,000 per year.
Below are the details on OCBC Titanium Credit Card
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September 8, 2010
Home Loan
Bank Islam,
BFR,
CIMB Bank,
Hong Leong Bank,
Maybank,
OCBC,
Rate,
Residential Properties,
RHB Bank,
UOB
That’s true. There is a new round of price war among banks for consumer loans, with the new mortgage rate going down to as low as base lending rate (BLR) -2.3%. The current BLR rate is 6.3%.
This is a very good news to property investors because they can obtain cheaper loan to buy more properties. With the news that Malaysia properties are booming, there are more reason to buy properties especially medium to high end landed properties.
There was a lots of interest in Malaysia properties priced below RM2mil and less movement among the higher end homes. Many foreigners especially from Singapore keen to invest in Malaysia due to affordability.
The new mortgage rate is now down to as low as BLR-2.2% since end-July.
After a quick check, below are the rates offered by some of banks. I believe other banks also have the same competative rate.
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