From the category archives:

ChexSystems

We get asked this question all the time: “Who is ChexSystems, Inc.”?
Here’s the answer (at least as of the Spring of 2009 … as the ownership changes from time to time!).

Are you sick and tired of searching for a non ChexSystems bank? We provide lots of information on this site, and have listed quite a few non ChexSystems banks. But the lists keep changing, and it is always hard to find local banks that don’t use ChexSystems.

We may have found the answer to your needs!

This is the final article in our series of managing your checkbook and checking account. In this article, we provide a number of tips for balancing your checkbook with a high level of success.

Here’s a chexsystems question from one of our readers (asking why chexsystems keeps people on their list so long)

Here’s some of the most important information we can give you to keep you off ChexSystems — don’t write bad checks. Don’t do it on purpose. Don’t do it by accident.

This is the third article in a series of articles about checking account management. In this article, we provide tips on how to properly use and cash a check. To avoid ending up on the ChexSystems list, you need to use and cash checks properly.

This is the second in a series of articles about managing, using and maintaining a checking account (so you don’t end back up on the ChexSystems list). In this article, we discuss some of the most important details to keep in mind when writing a check.

Here’s a tip from one of our readers about Washington Mutual (and how they deal with people on chexsystems).