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Financial Rates:
2.0
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Customer Service:
5.0
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Website Experience:
4.0
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Bank Fees:
3.5
Pros:
- Good variety of accounts available
- Low opening required amounts
- Business accounts offered
- Money market and CDs earn good rates
Cons:
- Low interest rates on accounts
- Tiered interest rates on some accounts
- High rates require eligible checking
- Accounts have monthly fees
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Financial Rates:
1.0
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Customer Service:
4.5
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Website Experience:
4.0
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Bank Fees:
3.5
Pros:
- Wide variety of accounts available
- Low opening amounts for most accounts
- Waived ATM fees for some accounts
- HSA earns good rates
Cons:
- Tiered interest rates on account
- Cannot open accounts online
- MMAs have high opening amounts
- Accounts interest rates are low
WaFd Bank offers a good variety of accounts. Those include:
- Savings account
- Savings account for minors
- Checking accounts
- Money market accounts
- CD terms from three-months to five-years
- Retirement accounts
- Lending options
- Credit cards
- Small business accounts
- Commercial options
The opening required amounts for WaFd accounts are low. Most savings and checking accounts only require $25 to open. A savings account for minors requires $10 to open. The Stellar Plus checking account requires $100 to open. The money market accounts require $100 to open. All CD terms require $1,000 to open.
WaFd Bank offers business accounts along with personal accounts. Those accounts include small business checking and savings accounts. They also offer some commercial business accounts. To open those accounts, you need to contact a commercial banker.
The WaFd Gold Money Market account has competitive rates. These account rates are the most competitive rates offered at WaFd. They are lower than other online money market accounts but still competitive. The seven-month and 13-month special CDs also earn higher rates than other WaFd CDs.
WaFd accounts besides the Gold MMA and special CD terms have low interest rates. These rates are similar to other brick-and-mortar bank rates. They do not compare to other online-only accounts.
Some WaFd accounts have tiered interest rates. To receive the highest rate for the Stellar Plus checking account requires a $10,000 balance. The regular money market account requires $90,000 to earn the best rate. Even the highest interest rate for these accounts is low.
Specific WaFd accounts require you to open other eligible accounts. To earn the best rates on the special CD terms, you must have an eligible checking account. The rates are only 0.05% higher if you have the checking account.
Most WaFd Bank accounts have monthly fees. The checking account fees range from $0-8 per month. The savings accounts have monthly fees from $3-10 per month. There are ways to waive some of the monthly fees. Those include keeping a set account balance. That balance ranges from $100-$20,000, depending on the account.
Fidelity Bank offers a good selection of personal accounts. Those include:
- Free checking
- Relationship checking
- Legacy checking
- Statement savings
- Looney Tunes Children's savings
- High Interest savings
- Health Savings Account
- Personal money market account
- Superior money market
- CDs from 12 to 60-months
The opening required amounts for Fidelity Bank accounts are low. The checking accounts and children's savings account require $25 to open. The statement savings account requires $100 to open. The CD terms require $500 to open.
ATM transactions made at Fidelity Bank ATMs are free of fees. Transactions made at other ATMs may have a fee. The Relationship and Legacy checking accounts waive the fees of foreign ATM transactions. You must meet the requirements to open these accounts.
The Health Savings Account offers good rates. It offers the highest interest rate out of the Fidelity Bank savings accounts. To earn the highest interest rate for the HSA, you must have $15,000 in the account.
The Superior MMA has tiered interest rates. To earn the highest rate, you must have at least $250,000 in the account. Balances below that amount earn interest, just not the highest rate. Even the highest interest rate is not competitive with other online accounts.
To open an account with Fidelity Bank, you must visit a branch location. They do not offer online account applications. They have branch locations in Kansas.
The money market accounts have high opening required amounts. The Personal MMA requires $2,500 to open. The High Interest savings account also requires $2,500 to open. The Superior MMA requires $10,000 to open.
The interest rates for Fidelity Bank accounts are low. They are not competitive with other online-only accounts. Some accounts offer rates slightly higher than typical banks. Most account rates are competitive with typical bank rates.
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| Savings (Rate as of 4/25/2024) | |
| APY | 5.25% |
|---|---|
| Rate | 5.25% |
| For APY | $0 |
| Monthly Fee | $0.00 |
| Checkbook | No |
| Member FDIC. No fees. Easy deposits and quick withdrawals. | |
| Savings (Rate as of 4/25/2024) | |
| APY | 4.25% |
|---|---|
| Rate | 4.16% |
| For APY | $1 |
| Monthly Fee | $0.00 |
| Checkbook | No |
| Member FDIC | |
| Savings (Rate as of 4/25/2024) | |
| APY | 5.15% |
|---|---|
| Rate | 5.02% |
| For APY | $0 |
| Monthly Fee | $0.00 |
| Checkbook | No |
| Member FDIC | |
| Savings (Rate as of 4/25/2024) | |
| APY | 5.00% |
|---|---|
| Rate | 5.00% |
| For APY | $100 |
| Monthly Fee | $0.00 |
| Checkbook | No |
| Member FDIC Plus, no monthly fees and unlimited free external transfers | |
| Savings (Rate as of 4/25/2024) | |
| APY | 5.05% |
|---|---|
| Rate | 4.93% |
| For APY | $5,000 |
| Monthly Fee | $0.00 |
| Checkbook | No |
| Member FDIC CIT Bank, a division of First Citizens, 125+ years of experience. | |
| Savings (Rate as of 4/25/2024) | |
| APY | 4.35% |
|---|---|
| Rate | 4.35% |
| For APY | $0 |
| Monthly Fee | $0.00 |
| Checkbook | No |
| Member FDIC | |
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1 APY stands for Annual Percent Yield. It's different from Rate because it takes into account compounding interest for the year.
2 MMA stands for Money Market Account. It's a savings and checking hybrid, allowing you to earn interest and use checks 6 times a month.