Brendan Harkness

Syracuse

Senior Editor, Financial Products and Services at Investopedia

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Capital One Bonuses: March 2025

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Brendan Harkness

Capital One offers a decent $250 bonus for opening a 360 Checking account and meeting a simple requirement. It’s not the best bank bonus available, but if you’ve been thinking about opening a fee-free checking account, this is a good incentive to do so with Capital One. Capital One doesn’t usually offer as many account promotions as other banks. See all of Capital One’s current bank bonuses below.
How We Review and Rate Online Real Estate Schools

1 month ago | investopedia.com | Brendan Harkness

Investopedia is dedicated to helping you find the best online real estate school to become a licensed real estate professional. Our full-time research and editorial teams conducted comprehensive research into nine popular online real estate schools. Each school was evaluated on 38 criteria in four categories, focusing in large part on salesperson pre-licensing: fees, customer satisfaction, features, and availability.
How We Review and Rate Auto Lenders

1 month ago | investopedia.com | Brendan Harkness

Investopedia is dedicated to helping you find the right auto lender for your personal financial situation. Our full-time research and editorial teams conducted comprehensive research into the auto loan industry, focusing on 16 lenders. Each lender was evaluated on 63 criteria in five categories: cost of loans, loan terms, borrowing requirements, customer experience, and additional features. Our editors and researchers independently evaluate all recommended products and services.
Best Online Real Estate Schools for March 2025

1 month ago | investopedia.com | Brendan Harkness

Why You Can Trust Us Investopedia was founded in 1999 and has been helping readers find the best online real estate schools since August 2020. Investopedia's research and editorial teams conducted independent, unbiased research into online real estate schools. Over 300 data points were collected or calculated on nine popular real estate schools.
Best CFA Exam Prep Courses for March 2025

1 month ago | investopedia.com | Brendan Harkness

Why You Can Trust Us Investopedia was founded in 1999 and has been helping readers find the best CFA exam prep course since June 2020. Investopedia's research and editorial teams conducted independent, unbiased research into CFA exam prep courses, collecting and calculating nearly 300 data points on nine providers of CFA exam courses. We included information on plan availability, fees, types of educational materials, study options, and customer satisfaction.
Best Auto Loan Rates and Financing for March 2025

1 month ago | investopedia.com | Brendan Harkness

Lender Scores by Category Here's how each lender above scored in our five main criteria categories. Each score is out of a possible total of 5 points. Why You Can Trust Us Investopedia was founded in 1999 and has been helping readers find the best auto loans since 2020. Investopedia's research and editorial teams conducted independent, unbiased research into the auto loan industry, collecting nearly 1,000 data points on 16 auto lenders.
Best Credit Unions for February 2025

2 months ago | investopedia.com | Brendan Harkness

Why You Can Trust Us Investopedia was founded in 1999 and has been helping readers find the best credit unions since 2021. Investopedia's research and editorial teams conducted independent, unbiased research into the credit union industry to offer a variety of recommendations for people in different circumstances. Investopedia conducted research into 13 credit unions, evaluating each one across 31 dimensions.
Best Identity Theft Protection Services for February 2025

2 months ago | investopedia.com | Brendan Harkness

If you have a large family and/or you want the highest level of identity theft coverage you can get, consider Aura. Its plans are relatively expensive, but you get a whole lot of protection and features in return. Aura's basic individual plan includes $1 million in identity theft insurance, which is about on par with most other services we researched.
Best Money Transfer Apps for February 2025

2 months ago | investopedia.com | Brendan Harkness

The Bottom Line You have a wealth of good options when it comes to money transfer apps. If you want to send money domestically to family, friends, and acquaintances, it's hard to beat Venmo for convenience and affordability. With fast, free transfers, it's a great way to split the tab or pay back someone you owe. If you need to send money to people in other countries, we suggest going with Wise or WorldRemit.
Best Small Business Bank Accounts for February 2025

2 months ago | investopedia.com | Brendan Harkness

Why You Can Trust Us Investopedia was founded in 1999 and has been helping readers find the best bank accounts for their small businesses since 2020. Investopedia's research and editorial teams conducted independent, unbiased research into small business bank accounts to provide the best possible recommendations for a variety of situations and needs.