Financial crisis a boon to money management websites

January 4, 2009 Over the past two years websites are wooing users with powerful online money management tools

Over the past two years, websites such as Mint, Buxfer, Geezeo and Wesabe are wooing users with powerful online money management tools and the promise of access to their financial information from anywhere in the world.

Balancing checkbooks and relying on paper bank statements is so last century. Over the past two years, websites such as Mint, Buxfer, Geezeo and Wesabe are wooing users with powerful online money management tools and the promise of access to their financial information from anywhere in the world. And it's working.

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