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UFB Preferred Savings: Earn Expired

up to 5.02% APY
+52 Deal Score
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UFB Direct, our partner, offers the following benefits with their Preferred Savings account:
  • Earn up to 5.02% APY*.
  • No monthly maintenance fees.
  • No minimum deposit requirement
  • Complimentary ATM card
  • Digital tools for seamless remote banking
  • Free transfers between direct deposit accounts
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UFB Direct, our partner, offers the following benefits with their Preferred Savings account:
  • Earn up to 5.02% APY*.
  • No monthly maintenance fees.
  • No minimum deposit requirement
  • Complimentary ATM card
  • Digital tools for seamless remote banking
  • Free transfers between direct deposit accounts
Slickdeals may be compensated by UFB Direct
Created 02-22-2023 at 12:46 PM by LD7 | Staff
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This rate is not for a CD, this is a standard savings account rate. So the big difference is having complete liquidity versus putting your money into a CD which typically will have an early withdrawal penalty if you need to access your funds before maturity. Also, if you lock yourself into a CD and rates continue to go higher, you may lose out on some additional interest at other banks as they increase their rates. Once I see rates start to come down, I'll probably put some money into a CD that matures in a few years to continue to earn high interest even as rates start to decline.
They are jumping the gun by a week, counting on a 1/2 percent increase by the Fed in the next meeting. Assuming that happens, by the end of the month other online savings accounts will be in the 4.5% to 5% range. Solid rate tho.

And yeah, if you have more than $250k in an account, you might want to break that up and have a few accounts to keep your balances under that threshold…But I bet you already knew that if you have that much cash sitting around.
Nah takes like a day. They just sit on our money and earn on their end for a week then allow it to post so we start earning. LOL

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03-27-2023 at 11:28 PM.
03-27-2023 at 11:28 PM.
I'm happy with CDs & JEPI. Too much pressure on Powell now, another 25BP max which won't necessarily translate to higher savings rates
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hydro1
03-28-2023 at 12:15 AM.
03-28-2023 at 12:15 AM.
Can someone please explain something to me??

When the UFB Back website sites:

"Bank products and services are offered by Axos Bank®. All deposit accounts through Axos Bank brands are FDIC insured through Axos Bank."

But then you can't find any mention of UFB on the Axos website nor the FDIC website, how can you confirm they are really FDIC insured??
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Joedaddy123
03-28-2023 at 12:17 AM.
03-28-2023 at 12:17 AM.
Dang… can we please get a banking 101 page at SD?
It's wild in here.
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bonkman
03-28-2023 at 06:51 AM.
03-28-2023 at 06:51 AM.
Been researching this bank for over a month. It seems like trash. Nerdwallet and other rating sites gave it high rankings and then modified their reviews after getting lots of complaints. Recent (YTD) google reviews are also terrible. Ten cuidado!
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nevergoodenough
03-28-2023 at 08:04 AM.
03-28-2023 at 08:04 AM.
they took my money out of my capital one on 3.20 and it got reversed today. For that period my accrued interest is now showing 10.80 on 16k. That really isn't 5.02 even if I only count days since it cleared. I'll just find somewhere else on the up and up i guess.
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tgrold
03-28-2023 at 08:06 AM.
03-28-2023 at 08:06 AM.
Quote from nevergoodenough :
they took my money out of my capital one on 3.20 and it got reversed today. For that period my accrued interest is now showing 10.80. That really isn't 5.02 even if I only count days since it cleared. I'll just find somewhere else on the up and up i guess.
All America Bank - 4.8%
FDIC insured, just need some debit card transactions monthly to qualify for rate.
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nevergoodenough
03-28-2023 at 08:07 AM.
03-28-2023 at 08:07 AM.
Quote from hydro1 :
Can someone please explain something to me??

When the UFB Back website sites:

"Bank products and services are offered by Axos Bank®. All deposit accounts through Axos Bank brands are FDIC insured through Axos Bank."

But then you can't find any mention of UFB on the Axos website nor the FDIC website, how can you confirm they are really FDIC insured??
when I connected my capital one account it showed as axos bank so I'm pretty sure it's a service of Axos. They def don't seem to pay the interest rate they claim but that's just been my experience. I transfered my funds out in full yesterday.
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nevergoodenough
03-28-2023 at 08:09 AM.
03-28-2023 at 08:09 AM.
Quote from tgrold :
All America Bank - 4.8%
FDIC insured, just need some debit card transactions monthly to qualify for rate.
I'll pass on these smaller banks plus I don't want to have to meet criteria on a savings account or any account really but in this case a savings account.
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localHero
03-28-2023 at 08:20 AM.
03-28-2023 at 08:20 AM.
Quote from nevergoodenough :
they took my money out of my capital one on 3.20 and it got reversed today. For that period my accrued interest is now showing 10.80 on 16k. That really isn't 5.02 even if I only count days since it cleared. I'll just find somewhere else on the up and up i guess.

My experience is only 5 days but it's been fine so far. Wired money on Friday and it showed up quickly. Accrued interest shows the right amount through Monday and I had linked my Wells Fargo acct with a $10 test withdrawal yesterday which showed up today on both accounts. I'd also set up a UFB alert for any withdrawals over $1 and I did get both a text and email when that $10 went out.


This is a place to park money. It's not an account for someone needing to make a lot of withdrawals or deposits. Needing to monitor the interest rates is the only pita that I see so far. Anyone have suggestions on the easiest way to do that?
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nevergoodenough
03-28-2023 at 08:25 AM.
03-28-2023 at 08:25 AM.
you were paid interest for the amount of time it took to clear your other account? They said me nothing for the period of time it took to clear. Funds left my capital one.on 3.20 and were pending until 3.23. I didn't get any return for that period.

I'll answer your question on suggestions if monitoring for higher pay
bookmark the page showing their rates and check once a week or set up an alert on SD.
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localHero
03-28-2023 at 08:38 AM.
03-28-2023 at 08:38 AM.
Quote from nevergoodenough :
you were paid interest for the amount of time it took to clear your other account? They said me nothing for the period of time it took to clear. Funds left my capital one.on 3.20 and were pending until 3.23. I didn't get any return for that period.

I'll answer your question on suggestions if monitoring for higher pay
bookmark the page showing their rates and check once a week or set up an alert on SD.

I wired money on Friday afternoon and it took some hours but it did show up in the UFB account late that same afternoon. The math indicates that I received interest for that day as well. I'm on the East Coast and UFB is on the West Coast (I think) so that might have made a difference if they credited the wire by a certain time in the afternoon.


When I looked yesterday evening, Monday's interest had not yet accrued in my UFB account but it was there this morning so I'm assuming it comes in at the end of the day.


Being lazy and forgetful, I was hoping for something more automatic to track rates but maybe an alert on SD will do that for me. Thanks.
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nevergoodenough
03-28-2023 at 08:57 AM.
03-28-2023 at 08:57 AM.
when do you see them update your accrued interest because mine was the same for several days. They finally updated it once I pulled the funds. The update was not showing when I checked at like 2am though.

My issue is I pulled the funds out of capital one on 3.20 and they had them pending until 3/23. They told me I'm not going to get interest during this time but my accrued interest was showing on Thursday night as 8.55. On Monday morning they updated to 10.55 so I'm really not sure how they did that but it made me highly suspicious so I pulled the funds. On the other hand, this is obviously a much better return than capital one offers at 3.4 so I'm considering putting them back. I'm honestly undecided at this point.
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localHero
03-28-2023 at 09:10 AM.
03-28-2023 at 09:10 AM.
Quote from nevergoodenough :
when do you see them update your accrued interest because mine was the same for several days. They finally updated it once I pulled the funds. The update was not showing when I checked at like 2am though.

My issue is I pulled the funds out of capital one on 3.20 and they had them pending until 3/23. They told me I'm not going to get interest during this time but my accrued interest was showing on Thursday night as 8.55. On Monday morning they updated to 10.55 so I'm really not sure how they did that but it made me highly suspicious so I pulled the funds. On the other hand, this is obviously a much better return than capital one offers at 3.4 so I'm considering putting them back. I'm honestly undecided at this point.

I'm not checking that often but it seems like it gets updated at the end of the day. What will really tell is at the end of the month when the interest is credited. Then the math will tell me how many days were counted. Wiring the funds in is faster but it did cost wire fees so only worth it if you have a substantial amount. The Wells Fargo fee was $30 and chat had told me the UFB incoming wire fee was $35 but that hasn't shown up in my account (yet).
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nevergoodenough
03-28-2023 at 10:32 AM.
03-28-2023 at 10:32 AM.
I'm only putting 16k in so that's around 2.19 a day in interest lost at ufb why waiting for funds to clear. I may transfer them back from my capital One though since that's only 3.4. Havent decided if it's worth the risk especially since the accrued interest didn't look right over a week and my amounts only changed once. Perhaps it's worth giving it a month though and seeing what the returns are.
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jacksan1
03-28-2023 at 11:37 AM.
03-28-2023 at 11:37 AM.
Whenever I open these online HYS accounts, I experiment with a couple of dollars to see how they perform. UFB Direct has failed the test. Their fund transfer, in or out, takes a long time (a full business week). We have an account with MySavingsDirect which is run by Emigrant Bank, and they move funds (ACH) overnight so long as you put in a request by 5pm Eastern. Their customer service is very responsive as well. MySavingsDirect's rate is only 4.35% APY, but I feel that I am in a much better hand with them than UFB.
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