Offer at a glance
- Maximum bonus amount: $100
- Availability: Nationwide
- Direct deposit required: No
- Additional requirements: See below
- Hard/soft pull: Soft
- ChexSystems: Yes (comments here suggest they might be Chex sensitive)
- Credit card funding: None
- Monthly fees: None
- Early account termination fee: None
- Household limit: None
- Expiration date: None
Contents
The Offer
- CIT Bank is offering a $100 bonus when you open a new checking account and complete the following requirements:
- Use promo code EC2025
- Deposit at least $2,500 or more within 30 days
The Fine Print
- See full terms here
- All bank account bonuses are treated as income/interest and as such you have to pay taxes on them
Avoiding Fees
Monthly Fees
This account has no monthly fees to worry about.
Early Account Termination Fee
This account has no monthly fees to worry about.
Our Verdict
Always nice to see an easy bonus like this. CIT Bank frequently has savings offers, it’s also nice that this works for existing eChecking account holders. We will add this to our best bank account bonuses.
Hat tip to ShawntheShawn
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worth to pull chex for 100$?
Not really. Many of us recently did a savings promo with them, incurred a recent Chex for that, and therefore was able to freeze our Chex for this application, avoid an inquiry when adding an account, and still get approved. Someone new is almost certainly not going to get approved with Chex frozen.
munsie
Personally I would save the Chex pull for higher amount offers from CIT or other financial institutions (assuming you’ve never had a CIT account).
munsie
CIT website has not been working for me on Chrome for like 2-3 days. Thought the site was down but finally tried from Firefox and it worked. It worked on Chrome last week so idfk. I had vaguely insane thoughts that they took my money and ran
It wasn’t working well for me on anything other than its app. That was a weekend maintenance that went a over a day long.
Same. Chrome failed to load anything, but I at least got to the login page on firefox, then it hangs. Unusual since many websites just don’t like firefox nowadays.
Works fine for me today.
Thanks for the heads up that CIT is sensitive to transfer in and quick transfer out to the same account…
I linked my CIT account to a couple of my credit cards and paid the bills from CIT.
I can’t reduce the balance entirely with cc payments, but I will also link to some other bank so the money appears to go elsewhere. I have done that in the past with other banks so I don’t know why I didn’t think of it this time.
Good reminder!
I just typically hate linking churning accounts to lots of things…I know USAA only lets you have a certain number of linked accounts at a time. And my auto payments for most of my bills and such are already set up and running on cruise control.
Was this referring to what I wrote in my reply to
Sum Mon3y? If so, to be clear, I told them that CIT is sensitive in general so doing what they did could raise red flags. IMO, it’s usually better to be cautious rather than throw caution to the wind. However, most readers on this site take the opposite approach that I do. 😉
My Plat sav was closed earlier this year for being at zero balance. I opened a new one for the $300 bonus on 5/24 and just opened this checking today w no issues. Got email right away about the bonus
I just pulled my Chex report and there is a “soft” pull from CIT on 6.7.25 and 6.17.25. Note that both of these dates are the next day after I had “hard” inquiries from another FI.
This shows that CIT is watching what I do like I speculated about in the Savings post. I just hope that they don’t lock my account or even worse close it like they did for a few others.
I would recommend that everyone else that has had multiple Chex inquiries (CIT didn’t seem to mind the 1st) after opening their CIT account, pull their Chex reports and look for the same!
I know what hard/soft pulls are for my credit report, but how do you tell the difference on CHEX?
When you refer to a “soft” CHEX pull, do you mean the ones under “Inquiries viewed only by you”?
Yes, that is what I am referring to. However, Chex puts both “soft” pulls and failed “hard” pulls in that section. It’s really annoying that they don’t differentiate it.
Got rejected for this offer 🙁
Tried applying as a new customer for a CD with Chex frozen, no go:
“Thank you for your recent application for a CIT Bank account. Unfortunately, we are unable to open an account for you at this time. Our decision was based in whole or in part on information obtained in a report from a consumer reporting agency.
You will receive an email with additional information.
If you have any other questions, please contact Chex Systems.”
So one comment said two-weeks for current balance to match available balance, ouch. Any specific data points?
Also is leaving $1 in the account enough?
Anyone leave $1 and still get the $100 eventually after getting their $2,600 to change from current balance to available balance and transferred out $2,599?
#1. My opening deposit was available 11 days (7 business days) after I initiated the transfer.
#2. Yes, leaving $1 in the account is fine.
#3. The offer just came out so it’s very doubtful that anyone has received the $100 bonus yet.
Thanks
Eric 🔗 I just checked and my Cap1 Savings $2,500 transfer already shows as part of my available balance within CIT, and so I just scheduled to transfer it back out even though my inward transfer it lists as Pending. My scheduled transfer out it dates that outward transfer as 20 June 2025.
The initial $100 I agreed to transfer into CIT in order to open the account still isn’t part of my available balance, but it has shown since Monday or so as part of my current balance.
Did you push the $2500 from CO to CIT? If so, it’s not surprising that the funds were available right away. I think that CIT only puts a hold on pulled in funds.
My $2,500 pull shows that it cleared 18 June ’25, but within one business day (I think it was before the funds even fully cleared) I could schedule a push from CIT back to Cap1. Also maybe due to the Juneteenth holiday it shows my scheduled $2,500 push transfer back to Cap1 as 20 June ’25 versus 19 June ’25. Anyway, except for the $100 earning ~0%, being able to push the $2,500 in and push it back out within 2 business days works for me.
#1. I think that you meant to write “my $2,500 push” instead of “[m]y $2,500 pull“. 😉
#2. Yes, banks were closed on Juneteenth because it’s a Federal holiday.
#3. You are playing with fire a little bit immediately moving the entire amount back to the same bank that sent it to CIT. Hopefully, you don’t run into any issues!
I’m fairly new to this. I guess I should have sent the $2,500 to a different account, oops.
Yes, Step 1) $100 pull to CIT; Step 2) $2,500 push to CIT within Cap1’s interface; Step 3) $2,500 push back to Cap1 within CIT’s interface.
Normally, I wouldn’t have done what you did but I especially wouldn’t have done it with CIT due to their high sensitivity. Did you do the Savings offer? If not, I can’t blame you as you probably missed the 10 or so warnings that I gave in that post.
Anyway, hopefully, you won’t have any issues and will receive the $100!
Were people having trouble with CIT’s savings offer crediting?
No. A handful of accounts were frozen and/or closed due to all sorts of things. Did you miss that offer?
Yeah, I don’t have the kind of money for big savings bonuses
Yes, I do remember you telling me that when you and I discussed Preferred Rewards a while ago.
Anyway, sometimes it’s worth subscribing to posts for offers that you have no intention of completing. You might learn a thing or 2. 😉
Quick suggestion: In the initial summary of requirements, under whether there is a DD requirement, it would be super helpful to state if there is an asset holding requirement and how long it is. Like here, there is no holding requirement I think, just deposit.
You guys already do such a great job. Thank you.
No OOS available
CIT is available nationwide AFAIK so there is no such thing as “OOS” for this post.