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Platinum Savings is a tiered interest rate account. Interest is paid on the entire account balance based on the interest rate and APY in effect that day for the balance tier associated with the end-of-day account balance.
APYs — Annual Percentage Yields are accurate as of September 3, 2024:
0.25% APY on balances of $0.01 to $4,999.99;
5.00% APY on balances of $5,000.00 or more.
Interest Rates for the Platinum Savings account are variable and may change at any time without notice. The minimum to open a Platinum Savings account is $100.
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I've been banking with them for nearly 5 years. No major problems. My only issue is that their phone app is severely limited & kind of sucks. Other than that, if you send money, it arrives quickly & interest rates automatically raise without having to contact them. They seem to stay pretty competitive when it comes to the highest interest rate. I really like them & trust them with my money.
UPDATE: As of 06 NOV 23, the app on Android has been updated and reflects a top tier online banking experience. Very happy with the improvements that have been made.
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You have more issues than just missing out on $10k!
Have been banking with them for many years. No issues, fast transfers, can manage everything online including closing accounts. Only negative is that their phone support sucks since they encourage online banking only, and they keep adding new account types with higher rates, and you have to open an account and transfer money to new account (which is pretty painless and done within minutes online)
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- Withdrawals only permitted through an External Account, internal transfer to other Popular Direct accounts or via ACH.
- As part of the account opening process, you must make a deposit into your Popular Direct account from an External Account.
- You cannot change your External Account during the first 60 calendar days after linking it to your Popular Direct account.
- If we cannot verify your external account, may request proof of ownership. If requested, proof must be sent to us by Online Banking Secure Message on or before the 10th calendar day from account opening date, or your account will be closed, and funds returned to your external account.
- ACH debits that originate from external accounts other than your External Account will not be permitted during the first 70 calendar days after opening your Popular Direct account.
- During such 70-day period you will only be permitted to complete online transfers from your External Account or from your other Popular accounts.
I'll add my experience. I've been with CIT once in the 2010's. The experience was ok, I found ACH transfers a bit slow. I also found the app very limited. Never had any issues other than that. I left and closed everything when their interest rates weren't competitive anymore.
I recently re-opened an account within the last 3 years. They had great rates, but to those questioning if they automaticaly give you the best rate, the answer is yes and no. The rates went up but I didn't get them for a few months because they created a new account with new name to get the better rate. I switched to the new account and so for for several years they've automaticlaly bumped up rates. So just be careful and monitor your account to be safe. I can see how some feel this is bait and switch.
Annoyances:
They do not allow Trust accounts. That's a negative for some.
The only way to close accounts was to use the secure message system of the website.
Their login process is outdated. For example, a username is case sensitive. It's also space sensitive so if you copy and paste sometimes it automatically puts a space at the end, the login will fail. Most other banks will automatically remove leading and following spaces and also not make usernames case sensitive.
They seem to have 2 login pages. You cannot use both as trying to register for one while having a login with the other will error out as a duplicate. However, you cannot login to the one where you don't have credentials. Why does this matter? Because some account aggregators seem to use one or the other. If you're unlucky, you'll be stuck with no access for your account aggregator tool to pull in CIT data.
I've been banking with them for nearly 5 years. No issues. My only issue is that their phone app is severely limited & kind of sucks. Other than that, if you send money, it arrives quickly & interest rates automatically raise without having to contact them. They seem to stay pretty competitive when it comes to the highest interest rate. I really like them & trust them with my money.
you can buy treasury money market funds which do all of that for you, at negligible expense ratio, and you still et the state income tax exemption benefits. and it operates like a bank account. meaning highly liquid, you can have your money in 1 business day
can get 5.42% compound yield at vanguard.
1-mo t-bill is 5.57% currently
who should i watch on youtube to learn how to do this? thanks
Glad I read your comment! I just set up an account and was worried when I used the app, it really is pretty poor.
The app is INCREDIBLY BAD. Not just "pretty poor".
The interest rate is nice, but check out the Ally Bank app. It just makes the CiT Bank app look like their "team" is only one person running the whole thing.
That being said, I do have the Platinum Savings and tolerate the app.
Dumb question but would be valuable if someone could confirm. For the ATM reimbursement, if I take money out at a Casino ATM that charges say 20 a transaction does it cover that fee?
Update: I just spoke with a CIT rep to confirm - and that is the case - those limits were removed during covid - BUT... it doesn't apply to the CIT Platinum Savings as you can't bill pay through that account - just echecking and money markets (which give lower rates)...
Bummer - but good info to know...
So if you're doing this to bill pay through CIT, open both a Platinum Savings and echecking...
Hope this helps someone...
Is this limitation of the Platinum Savings specifically referring to the "Bill Pay" feature (which one has to sign up for)? Or does this mean you can't set up your utilities/credit cards to auto-pay from a platinum savings account? I hope it's just the former as I literally just set up an account with them (in addition to the Savings Connect account i already had)... Was about to switch over all my auto-pays to the platinum savings account...
I will repeatedly advise to STAY AWAY from this company. They are constantly changing their name for a reason.
I bought a piece of equipment in 2017 for my business and they were the financier of choice for that manufacturer (American company).
Then, the Direct Capital loan person told me it was a 5% loan. I was naïve and it was my first loan so I took it. A couple years later I was purchasing another piece of equipment and went back to the same place to get another loan from them.
Knowing more this time I asked for the interest rate, did the math and it didn't math out. The APR would be actually 8.8% based on the payments he was proposing.
I confirmed with a friend who is a bank manager and he said "CIT Bank" loan person had made up the acronym to make 5% sound like what they wanted it to sound like and that the math and actual interest rate were not what they were telling me. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...
The same trick worked with my original loan and I didn't realize it till trying to get a loan the second time.
The last scenario was in 2021. The equipment manufacturer refers another loan company now as well.
I just got an email and phone call from them where they claimed their new name is First Citizens.
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- Withdrawals only permitted through an External Account, internal transfer to other Popular Direct accounts or via ACH.
- As part of the account opening process, you must make a deposit into your Popular Direct account from an External Account.
- You cannot change your External Account during the first 60 calendar days after linking it to your Popular Direct account.
- If we cannot verify your external account, may request proof of ownership. If requested, proof must be sent to us by Online Banking Secure Message on or before the 10th calendar day from account opening date, or your account will be closed, and funds returned to your external account.
- ACH debits that originate from external accounts other than your External Account will not be permitted during the first 70 calendar days after opening your Popular Direct account.
- During such 70-day period you will only be permitted to complete online transfers from your External Account or from your other Popular accounts.
I recently re-opened an account within the last 3 years. They had great rates, but to those questioning if they automaticaly give you the best rate, the answer is yes and no. The rates went up but I didn't get them for a few months because they created a new account with new name to get the better rate. I switched to the new account and so for for several years they've automaticlaly bumped up rates. So just be careful and monitor your account to be safe. I can see how some feel this is bait and switch.
Annoyances:
2 different things. I have no issue with the bank, but I have an issue with their app.
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can get 5.42% compound yield at vanguard.
1-mo t-bill is 5.57% currently
The interest rate is nice, but check out the Ally Bank app. It just makes the CiT Bank app look like their "team" is only one person running the whole thing.
That being said, I do have the Platinum Savings and tolerate the app.
Bummer - but good info to know...
So if you're doing this to bill pay through CIT, open both a Platinum Savings and echecking...
Hope this helps someone...
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I bought a piece of equipment in 2017 for my business and they were the financier of choice for that manufacturer (American company).
Then, the Direct Capital loan person told me it was a 5% loan. I was naïve and it was my first loan so I took it. A couple years later I was purchasing another piece of equipment and went back to the same place to get another loan from them.
Knowing more this time I asked for the interest rate, did the math and it didn't math out. The APR would be actually 8.8% based on the payments he was proposing.
I confirmed with a friend who is a bank manager and he said "CIT Bank" loan person had made up the acronym to make 5% sound like what they wanted it to sound like and that the math and actual interest rate were not what they were telling me. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...
The same trick worked with my original loan and I didn't realize it till trying to get a loan the second time.
The last scenario was in 2021. The equipment manufacturer refers another loan company now as well.
I just got an email and phone call from them where they claimed their new name is First Citizens.
Disgusting company.