More Brokerages Offering Free Checking Accounts At A Time When Big Banks Don’t
More brokerages are offering free checking accounts at a time when big banks do not. Are brokerage checking accounts a …
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Ally Bank Ad Offers Free Checking Without Mentioning Free Checking
Talk about confusing the consumer. Ally Bank offers a free checking account that pays interest – yes, pays interest. The …
Why Add a Monthly Fee if You Don’t Expect to Collect It?
While I encountered numerous online articles about this move, it was one sentence in the article by JD Malone of …
The History and Evolution of the Free Checking Account
I’ll start by setting the record straight on the origin of the free checking account. It wasn’t created by a banker. It was created in 1982 by a team of experts working at a small direct mail agency located in Lincoln, Nebraska.
It was one of seven unique checking accounts that were combined with a free gift and marketed as a complete turnkey marketing program under the name of Totally Free Checking and a Free Gift Too!
New Online Bank offers Free Checking
Another online bank introduces Free Checking. The week of February 13, 2012, teachers’ retirement plan tiaa-cref launched an online consumer …