Through May 21st, Wells Fargo is offering a $325 bonus when you open a new Everyday Checking account. All you need to do to qualify for the bonus is to receive a total of $1,000 or more in qualifying direct deposits to the new checking account within 90 calendar days from account opening.
There is only a soft credit pull when opening this new account. See promo page for terms and conditions.
CIT Bank has increased the APY on their no-penalty CD to 3.30%.
There is a $1,000 minimum initial deposit requirement.
One of the great things of this CD, is that there is no penalty if you want to access your funds before the CD maturity date. Alternatively if rates rise, you can pull out and switch to an account with a higher rate if those become available.
Rates are compounded daily with this CD, so if you pull out early, you will still earn all interest up until the day you pull out.
The CD is also of course FDIC insured.
These is no hard credit pull done when opening this account.
CIT Bank is currently offering 2.30% annual percentage yield on their Savings Builder account!
Apply now, to lock in this rate! Opening an account is both simple and easy.
To get this higher rate all you have to do, is open the account with a $100 minimum opening deposit and make a $100 or more single deposit per month. Alternatively, you can maintain a balance of $25,000 or more.
If you do not want to make a monthly deposit, or if you do not want to maintain $25,000 or more in your account, you can instead open a CIT Bank Money Market account. Via this link, you can earn a 1.85% APY, and there are no monthly deposits needed, no maintenance fees, and the minimum initial deposit is only $100!
If you want to both earn interest on your savings and also don’t want to keep your cash liquid and not tied up, these accounts are likely your best option.
Accounts can be closed at anytime with no penalty.
These accounts are FDIC insures, and There are no opening, monthly servicing, online transfer or incoming wire fees.
CIT Bank has raised the rate on the Savings Builder account to 2.25% APY!
To get this rate all you have to do, is open the account with a $100 minimum opening deposit and make a $100 or more single deposit per month. Alternatively, you can maintain a balance of $25,000 or more.
If you want to earn interest on your savings but also want to keep your cash liquid and not tied up, a savings account is likely the best option.
This account can be closed at anytime with no penalty.
Update: The 2.5% offer is no longer available. The new offer is now 2.2% APY.
CIT Bank has just raised the APY on their 1-Year CD to 2.50%!
With the national average on short term 1-year CD’s being just 0.65%, this is many times the national average and a great rate!
This 1 year CD is great for short term investments, with a low-minimum deposit of just $1000, and a great 2.50% return.
This CD is FDIC insured.
There is no hard credit report pull when opening this CIT Bank CD account.
CIT Bank Money Market Promo Link
CIT Bank’s Money Market account is currently offering an increased 1.85% APY! This is from the highest yields you can currently get on a money market account!
The great thing about a money market account is that your savings are not tied up. With a money market, you can get your money when you need it.
A CIT Bank Money Market account is FDIC insured and has a limit of 6 digital transfers or withdrawals per statement cycle. CIT Bank also offers direct mobile deposits and People Pay features.
There is no account opening or maintenance fees and the minimum initial deposit is only $100!
PNC Bank is offering a $200-$300 bonus when opening a checking account.
There is only a soft pull on your credit report when opening a checking account at PNC.
If the new accounts are closed within 180 days from opening, there is a $25 service fee.
Both these accounts do have $15-$25 monthly fees, but are waived with qualifying monthly deposits.
To waive the monthly fees, for the $200 Virtual Wallet with Performance Spend account you’ll need either an average monthly balance of $2,000 or more, qualifying direct deposits of $2,000 or more or $15,000 in linked eligible accounts.
For the $300 Virtual Wallet with Performance Select account you’ll need either an average monthly balance of $5,000 or more, qualifying direct deposits of $5,000 or more or $25,000 in linked eligible accounts.
New accounts are not eligible for this offer if any signer has signing authority on an existing PNC Bank consumer checking account or has closed an account within the past 90 days, or has been paid a promotional premium in the past 12 months.
You can only get the bonus on one account, so you can’t double dip and open both accounts.
Option 1 – $200 bonus:
Option 2 – $300 bonus:
Update: Deal over.
H&R Block Tax Software Deluxe + State 2017 with 5% Refund Bonus Offer – Link
Today only, you can pick this up from Amazon for only $17.99.
This is available as a CD, a PC download, or a Mac download.
This is the lowest it has ever been from Amazon and was selling for $34.99 yesterday.
Update: Deal over.
Quicken is offering a 5-year subscription to Quicken Premier for FREE!
Includes everything in Deluxe, plus:
Investing In Stocks The Complete Course – Link 
Udemy is has this online course on sale right now for just $10.
Chase bank is currently offering a bonus of up to $500 when you open a Chase checking and/or savings account!
Option 1: Open a new Chase checking account and earn a $300 bonus. To receive the $300 checking bonus, at account opening, deposit $25 or more; set up direct deposit and have your direct deposit made to your account within 60 days. After you have completed the requirements, you’ll get the $300 deposited in your account account within 10 business days.
Option 2: Open a new Chase savings account, deposit a total of $15,000 or more in new money within 10 business days, maintain a $15,000 balance for 90 days, and you’ll earn a $200 cash bonus.
If you open both the checking and savings account you’ll earn $500!
To get this offer:
$225 Checking Account Bonus Promo Link
Santander Bank is offering a $225 bonus when you open an eligible new checking account with promo code: SPRING225 – Promo code must be entered in the promo code field on the online application.
This offer is only available for residents of the following states: CT, DE, MA, NH, PA, NY, NJ & RI.
To get this offer, you must receive direct deposits of at least $500 within the first 90 days, and keep your account open for 90 days as well.
Once you’ve met both conditions, the bonus will be deposited into your account within 30 days.
This offer is for new accounts only. You cannot be a current owner of a Santander checking account or had a Santander account within the last 12 months prior to account opening.
There is a $10 a month fee for the “Simply Right Checking” account, which is waived when you make any financial transaction that posts during a calendar month.
Update: Deal over.
Today only, Amazon is offering up nice savings on H&R Block 2016 Tax Software.
Chase Credit Card Rewards Point Forfeiture Class Action Settlement 
If you have been hit with a Chase “A/A”, and your credit card accounts were shut down while in good standing and points forfeited without giving you a chance to redeem them, you may be eligible for payment from a class action settlement.
Update 02/06: Wells Fargo has now added the following language to the offer: “This is an exclusive, nontransferable offer, available to those who received our direct mail or e-mail offer”. YMMV
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$250 Checking Account Bonus Promo Link 
Wells Fargo is offering a $250 bonus when you open an eligible Wells Fargo Everyday Checking account by February 17, 2017.
To get this offer, you must have a minimum opening deposit of $25 and within 60 days either make at least 10 debit card purchases and/or payments or set up a qualifying direct deposit of $500 to your new checking account.
Bonus will be deposited into your account within 45 days of bonus requirements having been met.
This offer is for new accounts only, you cannot be a current owner on a Wells Fargo consumer checking account.
The Wells Fargo Everyday Checking Account does charge a $10 monthly fee, but is waived if you either maintain a $1,500 minimum daily balance, have $500 or more in total qualifying direct deposits or have 10 or more posted debit card purchases/payments from the account.
PNC Bank Promo Bonus Offer Link
PNC Bank is offering 3 different bonus options, up to a $300 bonus, when you open a new checking account.
This offer is valid in the following states: AL, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, MD, MI, MO, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA, SC, VA, WI and WV.
Bonus will be credited to the account within 60-90 days.
The Virtual Wallet Account ($50 Bonus offer) has a $7 monthly fee, but is waived if you have any of the following:
The Virtual Wallet with Performance Spend account ($200 bonus offer) has a $15 monthly fee, but is waived if you have any of the following:
The Virtual Wallet with Performance Select account ($300 bonus offer) has a $25 monthly fee, but is waived if you have any of the following:
TurboTax prices will be increasing for this this season, tomorrow Friday, March 18th. If your taxes are simple or if you have already filled out your taxes on TurboTax but have not yet filed, be sure to file by tonight before the prices rise. The Federal free edition will still remain free, but Deluxe, Premier or the Home & Business versions will be going up in price.
Update: Deal over
$150 Checking Account Bonus Promo Link 
TD Bank is offering up an easy $150 bonus, when you open a TD Bank Convenience Checking account online via the above link, and make just 15 debit card purchase transactions within 60 days!
TD Bank does charge a $15 a month fee if your daily balance goes below $100, so you will want make sure your balance stays above the $100 requirement.
When opening a TD Bank account, I believe it’s just a “soft” pull on your credit profile.
This promo is available for accounts opened on or after 9/1/2015 though it doesn’t say when this promo will end.
Official T&C’s: Offer is only available to new personal checking Customers. A new personal checking Customer is defined as someone who does not have an existing checking account, applies for a new checking account from this web page and is the primary owner of this new TD Bank checking account. The primary owner is the owner whose Social Security Number is used for tax reporting purposes.
In response to it’s recent payment data systems breach, The Home Depot is offering one year of FREE credit monitoring, identity theft protection and an identity theft insurance policy.
Anyone who shopped in Home Depot stores using a credit/debit card from this past April and on, are eligible for this free service.
OptionsHouse 10k United Offer Link
Open and fund an OptionsHouse account, trade 10 times and you’ll earn 10,000 MileagePlus award miles! Trades are only $4.75!
Use code: UNITED10K
Update: Just a reminder that if you haven’t already done so, today is the last day to register for this offer.
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Due to the recent data breach at Target, Target is offering to anyone who enrolls, 1-Year of FREE Credit Monitoring & Identity Theft Protection from Experian! – Includes a free credit report, daily credit monitoring, identity theft insurance where available, and access to personalized assistance.
Click here to get your free credit monitoring. Officially, the activation code will be sent within 1-5 days, but unofficially it can come in as soon as 5-10 minutes.
Guests have until April 23, 2014 to sign up to receive an activation code. Activation codes must be redeemed by April 30, 2014.
You can still get the FREE Federal Edition via this link. All other products, such as the 
Premier or Home & Business will be going up in price on 3/22/14.
Hurry and file, as there are only a few days left to get the discounted price.
Update: Deal is over
As a Gold Box Deal of the Day, Amazon has Select H&R Block Tax Products between 51%-56% off!
Offer expires 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) March 2, 2014, or while supplies last.
Amazon reserves the right to modify or cancel this offer at any time.
You can file your federal taxes and e-file for FREE through TurboTax!
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Alternatively, Amazon has the TurboTax Deluxe Fed, Efile and State 2013 with Refund Bonus Offer for only $39.99! Also, with this offer, you can use some (or all) of your federal refund to purchase an Amazon Gift Card from TurboTax and TurboTax will tack on an extra 10%. Example: $500 would become $550!
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American Express Serve, has an offer, if you move all or a part of your tax refund to serve, you’ll automatically get a $20 credit! (Once it’s moved to Serve, you can just move it out to cash or pay bills) This is in addition to the FREE $50 credit after you make just 2 direct deposits of $250 or more! Amazon Payments or Paypal work just fine as direct deposits.
American Express Serve is a reloadable prepaid account (American Express Serve is not a credit card.)
With Amerx serve, even though it’s not a credit card, you get all the awesome American express card benefits, such as return protection, price protections and all the special promotions etc;!
There is no credit check. no minimum balance and no hidden fees. Even if you have bad credit, you’ll still be able to get Amex Serve!
Square, the company known for their smartphone app, which allows people to send/receive money, has now expanded person-to-person payments. All you need for this new service, is just an email address and a debit card number.
With this new service, there are (currently) no fees, no accounts to open, and no passwords to remember.
This service is very simple and easy to use. To request/send money, all you need to do is just send an e-mail with the following:
To send money, just send an e-mail with the following fields:
Also, Square Cash is currently giving out $1 for free, to try out this servie. Unless you change it, The debit card number you use, will be associated with the e-mail address you provided all future payments.
Unfortunately, this service does NOT work with credit cards 🙁
