Slickdeals is community-supported.  We may get paid by brands for deals, including promoted items.
Heads up, this deal has expired. Want to create a deal alert for this item?
expiredgeorgerobert posted Apr 09, 2024 04:52 PM
expiredgeorgerobert posted Apr 09, 2024 04:52 PM

My Banking Direct High Yield Savings Account: Earn Up To

($500 Minimum Deposit)

5.55% APY

242 Comments 97,145 Views
Visit Retailer
Good Deal
Save
Share
Deal Details
My Banking Direct offers up to 5.55% APY when you open High Yield Savings Account with $500 minimum deposit.

Thanks to community member georgerobert for finding this deal.

Editor's Notes

Written by megakimcheelove | Staff
  • The Annual Percentage Yield (APY) is accurate as of 4/10/2024. Rates are variable and are subject to change without notice.
  • The My Banking Direct High Yield Savings is a tiered rate account. The minimum balance to open the account is $500. If your daily balance is $50,000 or more, the APY is 5.55%. If your daily balance is between $10,000.00 and $49,999.99, the APY is 5.55% If your daily balance is between $1.00 and $9,999.99, the APY is 5.55%.
  • My Banking Direct, a service of Flagstar Bank, N.A., reserves the right to change the rate at any time without notice. Fees could reduce earnings.
  • My Banking Direct is a service of Flagstar Bank, N.A.
  • Flagstar Bank, N.A. is FDIC insured.
  • Other HYSA accounts to consider:

Original Post

Written by georgerobert
Community Notes
About the Poster
Deal Details
Community Notes
About the Poster
My Banking Direct offers up to 5.55% APY when you open High Yield Savings Account with $500 minimum deposit.

Thanks to community member georgerobert for finding this deal.

Editor's Notes

Written by megakimcheelove | Staff
  • The Annual Percentage Yield (APY) is accurate as of 4/10/2024. Rates are variable and are subject to change without notice.
  • The My Banking Direct High Yield Savings is a tiered rate account. The minimum balance to open the account is $500. If your daily balance is $50,000 or more, the APY is 5.55%. If your daily balance is between $10,000.00 and $49,999.99, the APY is 5.55% If your daily balance is between $1.00 and $9,999.99, the APY is 5.55%.
  • My Banking Direct, a service of Flagstar Bank, N.A., reserves the right to change the rate at any time without notice. Fees could reduce earnings.
  • My Banking Direct is a service of Flagstar Bank, N.A.
  • Flagstar Bank, N.A. is FDIC insured.
  • Other HYSA accounts to consider:

Original Post

Written by georgerobert

Community Voting

Deal Score
+48
Good Deal
Visit Retailer

Leave a Comment

Unregistered (You)

Top Comments

bigballs
4996 Posts
574 Reputation
My Banking Direct is a service of Flagstar Bank N.A. The parent company is NY Community Bank which is having financial difficulties. You can Google it. But all funds up to $250K is FDIC insured.

https://www.mybankingdirect.com/p...ings.html?
bigballs
4996 Posts
574 Reputation
Q: What happens when a bank fails?

A: In the unlikely event of a bank failure, the FDIC responds in two capacities.

First, as the insurer of the bank's deposits, the FDIC pays insurance to depositors up to the insurance limit. Historically, the FDIC pays insurance within a few days after a bank closing, usually the next business day, by either 1) providing each depositor with a new account at another insured bank in an amount equal to the insured balance of their account at the failed bank, or 2) issuing a check to each depositor for the insured balance of their account at the failed bank.
RacerxxLP
345 Posts
67 Reputation

241 Comments

Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.

Apr 12, 2024 04:44 PM
1,364 Posts
Joined Aug 2021
IndigoMorning6118Apr 12, 2024 04:44 PM
1,364 Posts
Good place to cash out my 2021 i-bond? 10k plus the interest.
Apr 12, 2024 05:14 PM
393 Posts
Joined Jun 2007
schneiksApr 12, 2024 05:14 PM
393 Posts
Quote from Wulfrax :
I mean it just sounds like laziness with money actually, like those who let their money sit in horrible 0.01% interest bank savings accounts.

Literally takes a few minutes to buy a T-Bill and understand the concept of buying them at different intervals so you constantly have maturing ones. The Treasury Direct site is super simple and you can place all your orders in 5min, and even set all your T-Bills to auto reinvest up to 2 years. Boom. Set and forget.

🤯 💰

The issue I have with all these high yield places is you spend your time setting up and getting into 1, then all of a sudden months down the line they keep dropping their rates not being competitive at all anymore.

So then you redo the process, open up at another best high yield place, get all your money into that new account, over and over and over. In the end you spend so much more time doing that and now you have 20 skeleton savings accounts all over the place. And come tax season, you get to enter all of them that gained you interest as separate entries. No fun. No good.

Save time. Save money (no State tax). Go with T-Bills.
Can't you just buy a T-bill ETF and make it even easier to buy t-bills than the hassle of buying at different intervals?
Apr 12, 2024 05:23 PM
2,287 Posts
Joined Nov 2008
dualityofmanApr 12, 2024 05:23 PM
2,287 Posts
Inflation is still out of control. Feds need to raise rates to10% and hold for at least 5 years.
Apr 12, 2024 05:30 PM
158 Posts
Joined Jun 2019
ScarletWing8449Apr 12, 2024 05:30 PM
158 Posts
Betterment is 5% right now with 2 million FDIC for singles and 4 million married.
Apr 12, 2024 05:40 PM
2,098 Posts
Joined Dec 2011
nevergoodenoughApr 12, 2024 05:40 PM
2,098 Posts
Quote from AmusedScent305 :
Not really, IMO, especially if you just opened an account with UFB and don't have a sufficiently large balance.

If you were getting 1% extra or more than your current rate, then it starts to be worth chasing rates because you're hitting the $100 difference at $10K instead of $30K, but even then you have to consider how much money you'd actually be moving over.
say if I were to move 32k from ufb (5.25) to this option.... would it be worth it?
Apr 12, 2024 05:52 PM
416 Posts
Joined Mar 2012
lightrulesApr 12, 2024 05:52 PM
416 Posts
Quote from nevergoodenough :
say if I were to move 32k from ufb (5.25) to this option.... would it be worth it?
if $32k in bank, difference between 5.25 and 5.55 is about $8 per month.
Apr 12, 2024 06:02 PM
1,279 Posts
Joined Jul 2006
kevolutionApr 12, 2024 06:02 PM
1,279 Posts
Quote from IndigoMorning6118 :
Good place to cash out my 2021 i-bond? 10k plus the interest.
Should have cashed these out a while ago. The rates have been pretty bad the past few cycles.
1

Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.

Apr 12, 2024 06:13 PM
237 Posts
Joined Nov 2017
aidrees1Apr 12, 2024 06:13 PM
237 Posts
Quote from RacerxxLP :
Reviews don't seem great....
https://www.depositaccounts.com/b...irect.html
I just opened a savings acct with Flagstar. I'm not impressed at all so far. Most likely I will be closing this acct very soon.
Apr 12, 2024 06:21 PM
2,976 Posts
Joined Dec 2012
MMPGApr 12, 2024 06:21 PM
2,976 Posts
Been using wealthfront for a few months at 5%...not good enough to go thru the process to switch.
Apr 12, 2024 07:00 PM
1,042 Posts
Joined Jan 2020
AmusedScent305Apr 12, 2024 07:00 PM
1,042 Posts
Quote from IndigoMorning6118 :
Good place to cash out my 2021 i-bond? 10k plus the interest.
https://keilfp.com/blogpodcast/wh...Bond_rules

If you're doing short term investments, basically anywhere that exceeds the rate on your I-Bonds is "okay". Just remember to cash out at the start of the month so the interest will have already compounded from prior month and you'll have the full new month to earn interest in a new account plus the least penalty for holding them less than 5 years, and also that you may pay taxes on that earned interest when you cash them out.

OTOH, if you're investing long term and have the newer 1.3% base rate, you might keep them as a hedge against inflation since you can never lose your principal investment on them.
Apr 12, 2024 07:10 PM
417 Posts
Joined Feb 2010
djsolzsApr 12, 2024 07:10 PM
417 Posts
I like what your saying here - but was looking at the high yield savings for my emergency fund which I just want to sit anyways but have immediate access to if needed. Can you get out of the below fairly easily?
Quote from coffeeduck :
Yeah, I've been piling money into fidelity's generic money market funds or the treasury bonds because those are guaranteed (even though Fidelity takes a cut)
Wasn't really looking into APRs that deeply 10+ years ago but noticed my "high" APR at Ally bank dropped enough where I was annoyed, then it happened again at Synchrony bank, I believe, where the APR was lower than market rate, so I had LOST money in the 6 or so months I had it in their savings...

Stopped after that lol

But I agree, even if your comment has an air of smugness to it.
Apr 12, 2024 08:25 PM
390 Posts
Joined May 2007
yardostApr 12, 2024 08:25 PM
390 Posts
Perhaps not the most appropriate place to ask for financial advice but seems like there are some knowledgeable people on here so I will ask.

I am considering opening a 23-month CD from Credit Human here in Texas, which pays a 5.2%APY.

With no state income tax, would there be any advantage a T bill would give over the CD?
Apr 12, 2024 08:29 PM
274 Posts
Joined May 2020
SplendidStar8372Apr 12, 2024 08:29 PM
274 Posts
There is pretty much no advantage to creating a high yield savings account when you can just put that money in TBills through treasurydirect
3
Apr 12, 2024 08:37 PM
1,812 Posts
Joined Nov 2011
bretmkalApr 12, 2024 08:37 PM
1,812 Posts
Quote from yardost :
Perhaps not the most appropriate place to ask for financial advice but seems like there are some knowledgeable people on here so I will ask.

I am considering opening a 23-month CD from Credit Human here in Texas, which pays a 5.2%APY.

With no state income tax, would there be any advantage a T bill would give over the CD?
You can get an even better rate on a 13wk tbill?

Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.

Apr 12, 2024 08:46 PM
390 Posts
Joined May 2007
yardostApr 12, 2024 08:46 PM
390 Posts
Quote from bretmkal :
You can get an even better rate on a 13wk tbill?
Sure, but that CD has the rate locked in for 47 weeks. We don't know for sure what the interest rates would be in 13 weeks when the Tbill matures, and it is time to reinvest.
Last edited by yardost April 12, 2024 at 02:54 PM.

Leave a Comment

Unregistered (You)

Popular Deals

Trending Deals