On the morning of March 2, 2018, CIT Bank raised the APY on their 11-Month, No-Penalty CD to 1.85% from 1.55%, further cementing their rate leadership. The next-best competing product is Ally Bank’s no-penalty, 11-month CD that currently yields 1.5% for deposit amounts of $25K or higher. This new 1.85% rate leapfrogged the previously-best, nationally-available […]
Update on March 2nd, 2018: CIT Bank has leapfrogged the Dollar Savings Account by increasing the rate on their 11-Month, No-Penalty CD to 1.85%. As a no-penalty CD, it can be thought of as a liquid savings vehicle that just requires more effort to withdraw funds. You can read more about CIT’s No-Penalty CD and […]
Update on March 2nd, 2018: CIT Bank has leapfrogged All America Bank’s Mega Money Market account by increasing the rate on their 11-Month, No-Penalty CD to 1.85%. As a no-penalty CD, it can be thought of as a liquid savings vehicle that requires more effort to withdraw funds. You can read more about CIT’s No-Penalty […]
Ally Bank previously had a 1.75% APY promotion for the top tier of its no-penalty CD which ended on January 2nd, at which time the rate returned to 1.6%, which was still better than CIT’s no-penalty CD rate of 1.55%, so long as you were investing at least $25K. Unfortunately, Ally has again lowered the […]
Just a quick reminder to holders of the popular personal or business version of the Costco Anywhere Visa® Card by Citi that, beginning January 25, 2018, these cards no longer charge a foreign transaction fee. Previously the fee was 3%. It’s always nice to have more options for cards with both no annual fee […]
Google’s Project Fi has always been a relatively good deal for low data users, especially if they frequently travel internationally, but it has increasingly become a terrible deal for high data users as competitors reintroduced unlimited data plans and engaged in pricing wars. Project Fi’s data has been priced at $10 per gigabyte with no […]