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Making Personal Loans Work for You

By: Nicholas Franks02.29.24 Product Spotlight Savings & Budgeting
Personal loans help people with various needs, like paying off debt, improving their homes, or dealing with unexpected costs. They provide solutions that are perfect for a variety of personal situations. In this blog post, we will talk about personal loans, credit, applying for a loan, and other related topics.

How to Use a Secured Credit Card as a Stepping-Stone to Better Credit

By: Kirstin Wilson07.06.23 Credit Product Spotlight
If you’re new to borrowing, your first step is to establish credit. Secured credit cards can be an alternative to unsecured credit cards with the same conveniences. Secured credit cards are designed to help borrowers take positive steps towards financial freedom. The best candidates for secured credit cards are high-risk borrowers, those with damaged or insufficient credit history, those who are just starting out with credit, and those looking to avoid overspending.
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Product Spotlight: Cash Reward Mastercard®

By: Holly Benedetto12.15.22 Product Spotlight Credit
Credit cards come in many different forms from many different lenders. To incentivize borrowers to choose their card, lenders include special perks like low rates or cash back. If you're looking for a new addition to your wallet, consider diversifying with a card that specializes in cash back. Continue reading to see if the Cash Reward Mastercard® is a good fit for your spending needs.
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Product Spotlight: Platinum Preferred Mastercard®

By: Holly Benedetto12.01.22 Product Spotlight Credit
Credit cards are the most versatile product in your wallet and can be the ticket to a strong credit score and healthy financial habits. By mastering the most popular financial tool, you can demonstrate to lenders that you are a responsible borrower, ushering in new opportunities. Shopping for a new card? Continue reading to see if the Platinum Preferred Mastercard® is a good fit for your banking habits.

Product Spotlight: Auto Loans

By: Holly Benedetto09.29.22 Product Spotlight Auto
Purchasing a vehicle is a significant life milestone and financial achievement. Whether you’ve owned multiple vehicles during your life or are shopping for your very first set of wheels, American Heritage can help you from beginning to end of your purchasing journey.

Product Spotlight: Digital Services

By: Holly Benedetto08.25.22 Product Spotlight
American Heritage offers convenient online banking tools. Our web browser-based Online Teller and smartphone app, Mobile Teller, are here to make your life more streamlined and accessible. If you have yet to try our digital experience, keep reading to find out why you should!
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Product Spotlight: Personal Loans

By: Holly Benedetto02.17.22 Product Spotlight
Loans have been around for millennia, with records dating back to early Mesopotamian farmers borrowing seeds and livestock and using their yields for repayment. Today, loans remain one of the most classic banking products available due to their simplicity, versatility, and usefulness. A personal loan is a sum of money borrowed from a credit union, bank, or other lender, paid back over a set amount of time in fixed monthly installments, with interest.
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Product Spotlight: Debt Consolidation Solutions

By: Holly Benedetto01.27.22 Product Spotlight
Debt consolidation is a process in which multiple debts are combined into a single payment. Benefits of debt consolidation can range from reducing the number of individual payments to paying less over time with a lower interest rate. There are several ways a borrower can consolidate their debt, and some solutions are more suited to certain debts than others.
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4 Digital Services to Join This Earth Day

By: Holly Benedetto04.22.21 Product Spotlight
All of us can make a difference every day by choosing greener, electronic options. By reducing paper waste and mailing resources, you can help reduce your footprint and contribute to the good of the environment. If you are looking for more ways to reduce waste, consider using these four digital services offered at American Heritage.

Make Deposits Anywhere With Mobile Check Deposit

By: American Heritage09.10.20 Product Spotlight
In the last few years, mobile check deposit has become a must-have mobile banking tool for users of every age. It’s easy to see why: This powerful mobile banking feature lets you avoid extra trips to a branch or ATM by giving you the freedom to make deposits on your schedule, and you can make deposits anywhere you have an internet connection.

How to Use Contactless Cards and Mobile Wallets

By: Holly Benedetto04.27.20 Product Spotlight
There are always tools to streamline our everyday lives, since time is precious and better spent elsewhere than in the checkout line. If you’re looking for a new way to add a popular and safer technology to your life, try paying for transactions using contactless payments. Contactless payments can be performed using a contactless credit or debit card, or with a smartphone or smartwatch with the mobile wallet enabled. As the name suggests, these transactions reduce or eliminate the need to be in contact with the terminal when making a purchase. Enjoy faster, cleanlier, and more convenient shopping experiences with contactless technology!
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Making PAT Part of Your New Routine

By: Holly Benedetto04.02.20 Product Spotlight
We know that times are different and you may not be seeing your favorite tellers in the lobby as often. Our routines have been shifted as we're presented with alternative ways to handle our finances. There are options for how you would like to perform your transaction, and whether you visit in person, online, or in the drive-thru, there are a variety of ways to accomplish your goal. Plus, even your options have options! Our PAT (Personal Automated Teller) machines are available in branches and in the drive-thru and provide a quick alternative to waiting in line.
Member using the PAT machine

More than a Machine: Meet PAT

By: Holly Benedetto07.23.19 Product Spotlight
During a recent branch visit, you may have been asked to try the PAT (Personal Automated Teller) machine. Whether you decided to try it or not, you may have lingering questions about the machines and wonder why we’ve added them into our branches. We sat down with the experts here at American Heritage on all things PAT, Meg Kenny (PAT Supervisor) and Alicia Jordan (Assistant Branch Manager), to get answers directly from the team behind the machines.

 

 

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