Ally Bank announced today they’ve eliminated overdraft fees entirely from all their accounts. Reports indicate that Ally might still allow some smaller transaction to overdraw an account, but they won’t charge any fee if that happens.
Discover Bank made a similar move two years ago eliminating overdraft and many other fees.
Subject: Great News! We’re eliminating overdraft fees.
We’re eliminating overdraft fees on all checking and savings accounts – it’s just that simple.
As of August 2, you’ll be automatically refunded within 1-2 business days for Courtesy Pay or non-sufficient funds (NSF) item fees you incur until we can program our systems to completely eliminate them!2
No sweat, we’ll still have you covered in an emergency if you’ve opted into Courtesy Pay.3
We won’t miss overdraft fees either, so no need to worry that we’re going to add other fees or ditch our great interest rates.
Edit: It’s also being advertised on the home page of their website.
The stop payment fees need to go also. They don’t cost the bank anything to process, especially if done online.
They talk about this fee like it matters. Eliminate wire transfer fees and bring back unlimited ATM withdrawls.
This is a nice gesture that is quite easy to reverse, at any time for any reason.
No need to have anything in your lower-interest checking account now. Just keep it all in savings and overdraft protection will automatically transfer everything it needs to checking, at the time of transaction.
It’s always been that way, automatic overdraft transfers were always free. Real hack is to make multiple savings accounts so you can get more than 6 transactions per month by spreading them apart.
Didn’t they do away with the limit at least during the pandemic
The limit still “exists”, but they are “temporarily” refunding the fee for going over 6.
I think it was permanently removed by the fed a few months ago but some banks didn’t get the memo on purpose
Do they have any additional details? For example, will all fund transfers that are insufficient simply be rejected?
Eliminate wire transfer fees, than I’ll be impressed.
park a quarter MM with chase and you’re good to go with free wires 🙂
Marcus by Goldman Sachs give free wires too. IMO Chase Sapphire Banking with 75K in assets has the same banking perks as CPC. I have more than enough assets to qualify for CPC but haven’t seen the need to transition. I would probably do so if another good transfer offer came through.
What I like about chase is they refund fees charged by the machine. Anyone else but Schwab do that?
Every rewards checking account I’ve ever had (mostly credit unions).
Also, HSBC Premier has free wires, $75k balance no fee account, or $5k/mo in DD.
SoFi, Betterment, Aspiration, etc.
PNC only requires $5k then you can have unlimited free domestic wiring.
Chase sucks.
fidelity has free wires
Is it easy to conduct the wire transfers online or do you have to call it in every time?
Yes I just did one today. There are online and phone options. There wasn’t an option for a reference number that some agencies need online but I was able to call in and manually walk through the wire and that was fine.
Do they use an intermediary bank that charges fees though? IIRC Ally technically has $0 incoming wire transfers, but the intermediary bank charges $25 or so
No fees https://www.fidelity.com/customer-service/choose-eft-or-bank-wire
Schwab broker has 3 free domestic wires per quarter if you have $100k+ across household accounts. They are easy to set up online.
Brex Cash has free domestic and international wires. Great if you did the $1100 bank bonus in February.