Popular Online Bank Routing Numbers
I put together a list of routing numbers of some popular online banks, those that I track regularly for their savings account interest rates. Along with the routing numbers, I also provided the sources where I found them. Most of the numbers are from banks directly, others are from places like FatWallet forum.
Bank
Routing Number
Source
DollarSavingsDirect Savings
226070403
Dollar [...]
E-Loan Savings Plus Account $25 Bonus Offer
Banks want your money and in order to get your money, they will pay you!
E-Loan just launched its own version of high-yield online savings account call E-Loan Savings Plus . To promote the new product, E-Loan is offering a $25 bonus for a new account from now till December 18th. The Savings Plus has tiered [...]
Dollar Savings Direct 2.00% APY and GMAC Bank 2.00% APY
Update: Check out the Dollar Savings Direct review post for more detailed discussion on DollarSavingsDirect bank and my account opening experience. And latest rates can be found on the Online Savings Account Interest Rate History page.
When ING Direct lowered its rate to 2.75% APY last week after the latest 0.50% rate cut by the Fed, [...]
Free iPod Offer from Key Bank
Key Bank is offering free iPod Nano or touch when opening a qualified checking account before August 15, 2008.
To qualify for the free iPod Nano offer, you must open a Key Express Free Checking, Key Advantage Checking or a Key Business Free Checking Account and by October 31, 2008 make one debit card transaction and [...]
Got Unused ING Direct Referrals?
I can host them for you here on this blog!
When I published my ING Direct Orange Savings Account $25 signup bonus post on April 27, I thought it could be a while before all the 25 referral links are taken because, ING Direct, as well as this referral problem, has been around for a long [...]
Savings on Autopilot: Increasing the Auto-Transfer Amount
I have been automatically transferring a certain amount of money from our checking account to savings account on payday for quite a while. At first, $300 was moved every two weeks from our checking account at Bank of America to savings account at Emigrant Direct as part of our “pay ourselves first” strategy in order [...]
ING Orange Savings Account $25 Bonus
If you still want an ING account, you can get a $25 bonus if you open an account before the end of the year.
There’s an ING Orange Savings Account ad in the November issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine with a reference code for $25 bonus. I have posted similar giveaway a couple of times [...]
Say Goodbye to Emigrant Direct
Update: Emigrant Bank, the owner of Emigrant Direct, has launched a new high-yield savings account, Dollar Savings Direct (my review), which offers 4.00% 1.70%APY. Check out my other discussions on Dollar Savings Direct here and here. Now it’s really the time to say “Goodbye”
Emigrant Direct was good, for some time.
I have been using [...]
New Bank Findings: WT Direct and Salem Five Direct
I have noticed recently two “direct” online banks that offer competitive rates. Though both of them have decent introductory rates, the high minimum balance required to get rates make them less appealing if you have a small deposit.
One is WT Direct, a division of Wilmington Trust. For balance of $10,000 or more, the bank [...]
Considering Open Another Savings Account: GMAC or UFB
I have four online savings accounts already (all join accounts with my wife): ING Direct, Emigrant Direct, HSBC, and Virtual Bank. ING Direct used to have all my deposits when it offered superior rates than other online banks did. Now it fell far behind with a 4.50% APY. At one time early this year, I [...]
