Tax Free Bonds - FMS Bonds vs. Zions Bank

A leading financial services company in U.S.A., Zions Bancorporation is a joint collaboration of great banks in chosen high growth markets. Zions operates around 500 full-service banking offices and 600 ATMs in countries such as Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Washington. Zions offers a wide range of financial services which includes SBA lending, public finance advisory services, and agricultural finance. The company, which is included in the S&P 500 Index, also runs many specialty financial services and financial technology businesses on a regional or national scale.

The Company's banking subsidiaries offer different types of commercial and retail banking, and mortgage lending products and services. Zions Direct enables retail customers to execute online stock and bond trades. Customers of Zions Direct have incredible access to more than 9,000 mutual funds and can search for inventories of bonds through Bonds for Less. In addition, Zion DIrect allows customers access, free education and real-time information for executing trades, monitoring portfolios and for carrying out research.

Zions Direct Bonds for Less provides individual investors the largest record of fixed-income securities available in the U.S., including US Treasury bills, notes, and bonds, TIPS and Strips; US Agency securities, investment-grade US corporate bonds, and tax-exempt municipal bonds and bond issues. At Zions Direct, bonds are available to individual investors at institutional rates with a comparatively low $10.95 flat transaction fee. The Bonds for Less website showcases a search engine which enables investors to view prices, ratings, available quantities, different types of bonds, coupon rates, maturities, Yield to Call, Yield to Maturity and Tax Exempt Yield data. However, before making a purchase, the site requires the investor to open an account.

Established in 1978, FMS Bonds is a tax-free municipal bond firm which offers bond buyers a unique value insight in to the tax-free bond market. Users can browse through various features which provide extensive information on the tax-free bond market including commentaries, strategies, bond analyses and even the fundamentals in Bond Basics. For investors, the website offers advanced interactive investing opportunities such as access to live inventory of tax-free bonds, real-time pricing and trading, detailed information on timely buying opportunities, investment strategies, commentary and other necessary information for tax-free bond buyers. A member of NASD and SIPC, all accounts at FMS Bonds are insured upto $25 million. FMS bonds is supported by a brilliant professional team of bond traders who have an in-depth knowledge of the bond market. Users can search for the various categories of bonds and even purchase them online. The FMSbonds, Inc. patented Muni-TracTM system helps the clients by collecting all the required information about the bonds in a systematic, user-friendly report and keeps the client updated throughout the year.

Nayanathara. S.

Hi-Tech Editorial Division