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Free Checking Account Bonus at Widget Financial Credit Union in PA
Deposit Accounts (blog) Widget Financial Credit Union (formerly Erie General Electric Credit Union) is offering a $77 bonus for opening a new free checking account. Unfortunately, the credit union’s reward checking account (HD Checking) doesn’t qualify for the bonus. The … |
Deposit AccountsFuture of Free Checking and Reward Checking AccountsDeposit AccountsI recently had a conversation with a manager of a credit union with a reward checking account. Like many institutions with reward checking accounts, they have found it …
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Uncle Sam doesn’t get free checking
MarketWatch (blog) The U.S. government maintains more than 13,000 bank accounts with nothing in them, according to the Washington Post. That’s about 7% of all federal government accounts. But strangely, the government still has to pay service fees on each empty account, … |
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Free checking cuts both ways for TCF Bank
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal (blog) TCF Bank reported Friday a $25.5 million profit in the first quarter on revenue of $291.8 million. Revenue dropped by about 3 percent from the prior quarter and 15.5 percent from the same quarter one year earlier. After interest, most of the bank’s … |
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Free Checking Bites TCF in 1Q
US Banker TCF Financial Corporation (TCB) in Wayzata, Minn., missed analysts’ first-quarter estimates as a service charges and fees declined. The $18.5 billion-asset company said Friday it earned a quarterly profit of $25.5 million, after losing $283 in the … |