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CIT Bank Platinum Savings: Earn Up to $300 Bonus After Deposit Transfer Requirements Expired

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CIT Bank our partner, offers the following benefits with their Platinum Savings account. Use promo code PS2025.

New Customers: Deposit Transfer Requirements:
  • Transfer a one-time deposit of $25,000 -$49,999.99 for a Bonus of $225
  • Transfer a one-time deposit of $50,000+ for a Bonus of $300
  • Terms:
    • Promo Code: Account must be opened with a valid Promo Code within the Promotion Period.
    • Funding Period: 30 days from the account open date
    • Bonus fulfillment: 60-days from the funding date.
Details:
  • Must have a minimum daily balance of $5000 to earn 4.10% APY
  • No account opening or maintenance fees
  • Daily compounding interest to maximize your earning potential
  • FDIC insured
  • *See site for details
Slickdeals may be compensated by CIT Bank

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CIT Bank our partner, offers the following benefits with their Platinum Savings account. Use promo code PS2025.

New Customers: Deposit Transfer Requirements:
  • Transfer a one-time deposit of $25,000 -$49,999.99 for a Bonus of $225
  • Transfer a one-time deposit of $50,000+ for a Bonus of $300
  • Terms:
    • Promo Code: Account must be opened with a valid Promo Code within the Promotion Period.
    • Funding Period: 30 days from the account open date
    • Bonus fulfillment: 60-days from the funding date.
Details:
  • Must have a minimum daily balance of $5000 to earn 4.10% APY
  • No account opening or maintenance fees
  • Daily compounding interest to maximize your earning potential
  • FDIC insured
  • *See site for details
Slickdeals may be compensated by CIT Bank
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Big initial deposit required, but banks paying 4.3% on savings typically do not pay sign-up bonuses. Getting both a good rate and SUB is nice, and unusual.

No direct deposit games - nice. Finally, a bank that doesn't care where the money comes from.

The risk here is that you have to keep $5k in for 60-90 days to get the 4.3%, but CIT can lower the rate in that timeframe. However, CIT has historically had good rates on this account for quite a while - not at the very top of what is available, but certainly within shooting distance of the top. I would expect them to remain competitive.
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diavolo33
03-11-2025 at 05:22 AM.

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03-11-2025 at 05:22 AM.
Quote from chucktaylur :
Do I need to unfreeze my credit with the big 3 before applying?

I asked that earlier and didn't get a response, so I went ahead and applied with my credit frozen. No issues.
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dadab
03-11-2025 at 03:16 PM.
03-11-2025 at 03:16 PM.
Quote from Fugiyama04 :
If you already had an CIT Bank existing account as of 2/26/25, you still need to first officially enroll in this offer via the "Start savings now" button and then logging into your CIT Bank account instead of creating a new account. It will take you through enrolling into the offer for existing member
Yes, it worked as another poster mentioned that. However, there's still one open question as to how many days the newly transferred funds should be held? I don't see any restrictions in the fine print.
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denary
03-11-2025 at 04:48 PM.
03-11-2025 at 04:48 PM.
Quote from dadab :
Yes, it worked as another poster mentioned that. However, there's still one open question as to how many days the newly transferred funds should be held? I don't see any restrictions in the fine print.

from another site someone posted the following after contacting CIT via secure messaging:


The qualified DEPOSIT amount must be received prior to the expiration of the funding period. There is no restriction to withdrawals made from the account
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TurboSri
03-11-2025 at 05:35 PM.
03-11-2025 at 05:35 PM.
I'm an existing CIT Platinum savings account holder.

1. I'd move my money out of my existing CIT account to a non-CIT account first.
2. Wait for a day. (I'll probably lose the interest for a day).
3. Enroll using the link and offer code
4. Move the money back into my CIT account and leave it there (for at least 30+ days)
5. I'll wait for the bonus…
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Foladar
03-11-2025 at 08:48 PM.
03-11-2025 at 08:48 PM.
Quote from dadab :
Awesome tips from SDers....Tried to transfer out a big amount and it offered me to increase my rate to 4.641 with 4.75 APY from 4.31 APY. Can't complain.
did you transfer it all out, or just a big portion and left the 5K for the bonus?
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dadab
03-11-2025 at 09:41 PM.
03-11-2025 at 09:41 PM.
Quote from Foladar :
did you transfer it all out, or just a big portion and left the 5K for the bonus?
I just tried a big chunk out to see if it offers big rate.
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Foladar
03-11-2025 at 09:45 PM.
03-11-2025 at 09:45 PM.
Quote from dadab :
I just tried a big chunk out to see if it offers big rate.
It popped up before you transferred? I guess I can just transfer back if it goes through. Would love the extra bit since my current is 3.61% and I'm hesitant to bother for that part.
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ducki3
03-12-2025 at 08:28 AM.
03-12-2025 at 08:28 AM.
Quote from diavolo33 :
I asked that earlier and didn't get a response, so I went ahead and applied with my credit frozen. No issues.
Thanks good to know!
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jneset
03-12-2025 at 01:38 PM.
03-12-2025 at 01:38 PM.
Liveoakbank is $300 on $20k after 60 days and 4.3%.
You can get another bonus if it's another promo and you open another sub-acct
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kmolee
03-12-2025 at 05:36 PM.
03-12-2025 at 05:36 PM.
As another posted, able to register for the bonus offer even as an existing customer. Just login with existing account credentials and check off applicable account unless you want to open a new/another savings account, which is an option too. Also tiered up the interest on existing platinum account (using the transfer trick) so this is a super great deal! Thank you!!!!
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Foladar
03-12-2025 at 06:59 PM.
03-12-2025 at 06:59 PM.
Quote from SlimJimDanton1 :
I opened an account and transferred 50K and I got this email:

"You recently submitted an application for an account at CIT Bank (CITBank.com). In order to process your application, we need some additional information to confirm your identity. A CIT Bank agent will call or email you in the next 3-5 business days."

That was 4 days ago (incl weekend) so I guess I just have to wait to hear back from them at some point by end of week... annoying
Anything yet? I tried to open an account today, wasn't able to get them to attach to my bank account so went with micro deposit verification, and got this message after.

edit: got denied after a "thorough investigation" of a whole 2 hours, yikes
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dingdong123
03-16-2025 at 03:58 PM.
03-16-2025 at 03:58 PM.
Hopefully you all are looking at this fine print - "APYs — Annual Percentage Yields are accurate as of February 6, 2025: 0.25% APY on balances of $0.01 to $4,999.99; 4.30% APY on balances of $5,000.00 or more".

This means for 25K deposit, actual APY will be ~3.49% (first 5K at 0.25% and remaining 20K at 4.3%) and not 4.3% as being advertised. For higher deposit, it will be better, but would never reach 4.3%.
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enk1du
03-16-2025 at 10:43 PM.
03-16-2025 at 10:43 PM.
Quote from dingdong123 :
Hopefully you all are looking at this fine print - "APYs — Annual Percentage Yields are accurate as of February 6, 2025: 0.25% APY on balances of $0.01 to $4,999.99; 4.30% APY on balances of $5,000.00 or more".

This means for 25K deposit, actual APY will be ~3.49% (first 5K at 0.25% and remaining 20K at 4.3%) and not 4.3% as being advertised. For higher deposit, it will be better, but would never reach 4.3%.
I'm not an expert on this, but they describe the account as 'tiered interest rate account' which typically means the entire balance receives the APY of the tier, not each segment. I believe what you are describing would be called a "blended interest rate" account? Can anyone else confirm? I'm honestly curious and not sure.
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magic168
03-16-2025 at 10:53 PM.
03-16-2025 at 10:53 PM.
Quote from dingdong123 :
Hopefully you all are looking at this fine print - "APYs — Annual Percentage Yields are accurate as of February 6, 2025: 0.25% APY on balances of $0.01 to $4,999.99; 4.30% APY on balances of $5,000.00 or more".

This means for 25K deposit, actual APY will be ~3.49% (first 5K at 0.25% and remaining 20K at 4.3%) and not 4.3% as being advertised. For higher deposit, it will be better, but would never reach 4.3%.
We go through this every single time -- I guess no one at CIT bank ever reads these threads as they might update their language. It is NOT what you described. I have an account and have had one for years. Once you hit $5k, the entire account is at the higher interest rate.
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SlimJimDanton1
03-17-2025 at 06:10 AM.
03-17-2025 at 06:10 AM.
Quote from Foladar :
Anything yet? I tried to open an account today, wasn't able to get them to attach to my bank account so went with micro deposit verification, and got this message after.

edit: got denied after a "thorough investigation" of a whole 2 hours, yikes
They sent me an email saying I had a security freeze with ChexSystems. I don't recall setting one up but probably did back in 2017 when the experian hack happened.

I called ChexSystems, went through verification and they removed my freeze.
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