Bank Deals Blog: Banking Tools and Data

The most recent U.S. Survey of Consumer Finances seems to indicate the younger Americans are, the less they have in savings. We analyzed the federal data to discover the average savings by age.

The analysis reveals the youngest members of the workforce don’t have much to back them in an emergency, as under-35 households in America average less than $5,000 in their savings accounts. As they age and incomes rise, so do the amounts Americans put away in savings and for retirement, but not so much in certificates...

The sixth Fed meeting of 2018 is scheduled to start Tuesday. The FOMC statement should be released on 2:00pm Wednesday. A rate hike is expected which will move the target federal funds rate range to 2.00% - 2.25%. A Fed rate hike on Wednesday would be the third rate hike this year and the eighth rate hike since the Fed began normalizing rates in December 2015. After Wednesday, one more Fed rate hike is likely for 2018. How will this affect deposit rates? To help answer that question, we did...

By using DepositAccounts.com’s proprietary database of depository product data, checking account fee data from 1,711 banks and credit unions with branches in the 50 of the largest U.S. metro areas was analyzed. Checking account fee data from online banks was also analyzed. The study focused on three of the common checking account fees: overdraft fees, third-party ATM fees and monthly service fees. An overview of the findings for the regional analysis is as follows:

• Florida has some of the highest bank fees overall – with West Palm Beach, Orlando, Tampa,...

The fourth Fed meeting of 2018 has started today. The FOMC statement should be released on 2:00pm Wednesday. A rate hike is expected which will move the target federal funds rate range to 1.75% - 2.00%. A Fed rate hike on Wednesday would be the second rate hike this year and the seventh rate hike since the Fed began normalizing rates in December 2015. After Wednesday, at least one more Fed rate hike (and possibly two more) is likely for 2018. How will this affect deposit rates? To help answer...

The second Fed meeting of 2018 has started today. The FOMC statement should be released on 2:00pm Wednesday. A rate hike is expected which will move the target federal funds rate range to 1.50% - 1.75%. A Fed rate hike on Wednesday will likely be the first of three or four rate hikes for 2018. How will this affect deposit rates? To help answer that question, we did an analysis of our proprietary banking data with a focus on savings account rates. This is an update to the analysis that...

The first Fed meeting of 2018 has started today. The FOMC statement should be released on 2:00pm Wednesday. Even though no rate hike is expected to be announced at this meeting, 2018 should be another year of multiple Fed rate hikes. How will this affect deposit rates? To help answer that question, we did an analysis of our proprietary banking data with a focus on savings account rates.

After three Fed rate hikes in 2017 and after a total of five rate hikes since the Fed started normalizing rates in December...

This was the year in which savers finally started to see widespread deposit rate increases. Average rates haven't increased much, but if you look at the rates from internet banks, it's clear that rates are going up.

First, let’s look at the average savings account rate for all banks and credit unions that DA tracks. The vast majority of these savings accounts are from brick-and-mortar banks and credit unions. As you might expect, these rates are much lower than the rates you can get at most any internet bank. The current...

One of the things we’re proud of at DepositAccounts is how our patented rate-tracking technology isn’t built to monitor only banks, whose products dominate the coverage by most sites that list deposit rates. In the data universe we opted to create, more than 4,000 credit unions also populate our rate tables. Ranging from those with over a hundred thousand members and nationwide availability to tiny ones with a single branch and a mere one hundred members, credit unions play a fully co-starring role alongside banks on our stage of national,...

A year and a half ago, we focused our data microscope on a question that comes up from time to time: do smaller or larger financial institutions offer better deposit rates? Or maybe it’s the mid-sized banks and credit unions? Our test hypothesis was what most savvy savers will anecdotally tell you from their rate shopping, that the biggest players typically pay the least. And indeed our 2015 analysis bore that out. But does that equate to the smallest institutions paying the most?

Since we last sharpened our pencils on this,...