Bank of the West is paying a $100 bonus for opening a new checking account.
Although the offer is available nationwide, we wouldn’t recommend it to anyone outside the 20 states where Bank of the West has more than 700 branches.
That’s because it doesn’t provide free use of ATMs at other banks — a great perk [...]

You can land a $50 bonus and top rate with Ridgestone Bank’s checking and savings account combo.
Its Momentum Savings account pays 2.50% APY on balances between $2,500 and $50,000.
That beats the best nationally available savings account rate and matches the best returns on 24-month CDs.
To qualify for that rate you have to open a Momentum [...]

First National Community Bank has an intriguing offer that combines a high-yield checking account with attractive CD rates.
It’s paying 4.01% APY on balances of up to $25,000 in its “Maximum Earnings” checking account.
Anything over that earns a paltry 1.01% APY, which is quite typical for these kinds of accounts.
But FNCB is also [...]

PerkStreet Financial is an odd little newcomer that does one thing, and one thing only: checking accounts.
You can open an account with as little as $25 and pay no monthly fees as long as you use your account once a month.

There’s also no charge for using any of the 37,000 ATMs in the STAR network [...]

Chase has revived its $100 bonus for opening a checking account.
All you need to do is open a Chase checking account with as little as $100 in new money.

If you sign up for a basic “Chase Checking” account, all you have to do is establish one direct deposit, or make five debit card purchases, within [...]

Add a new bank to our list of the top-paying, high-yield checking accounts. It’s Royal Banks of Missouri, a 40-year-old institution with six branches in the St. Louis area.
The Majestic Checking Account pays 4.30% APY on balances up to $25,000.
That’s the second-best rate we know of on a nationally-available high-yield or reward checking account and [...]

Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and other banks have announced plans to rein in the outrageous overdraft fees they’ve been charging debit card customers.
They’re not doing this out the goodness of their hearts. They’re trying to stop Congress from cracking down on their abusive practices.
But lawmakers shouldn’t be fooled by the modest voluntary changes [...]

Checking account customers at Citizens Bank and Charter One Bank can earn a dime every time they make an electronic transaction.
All you have to do is enroll your account in the banks’ Green$ense program and follow a few extra rules.
Basically that means getting all of your statements online and making at least 10 debit card [...]

When we ran down our favorite high-yield checking accounts last week, Tiffani wrote in to say how happy she was with easyGROWchecking from First Bank & Trust.
The bank, with 16 locations in South Dakota and Minnesota, is paying 4.01% APY on deposits up to $25,000.

Earning that kind of interest isn’t easy. Even the best-paying 60-month [...]