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Apple Preparing to Launch Apple Card Savings Account
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The large banks all seem to be around 4% or lower
You’d have to go to a regional or smaller experience for higher, which tends to mean worse apps and accessibility.
Do you recommend any?
I use it all the time. I pay my rent in apple cash.
The real question is does anyone use Venmo anymore?
I used Venmo today since Starbucks partnered with them recently as a payment method in their app.
Wish they would do something like the Revolut card with Apple Pay, anywhere in the world just pay with your phone through an Apple account rather than having to change into different currencies and exorbitant credit card charges.
Nothing large (unless the original poster knows of one that I am not aware of) but there are a handful of small regional banks offering slightly over 5% and many others that are just under (but getting very close to) 5%.
Super-regional BMO Harris has a savings account (in certain regions like Las Vegas) that offers 4.3%. That’s one of the highest for a big bank I’ve seen so far.
NatWest / RBS in the UK:
Digital Regular Saver | Regular Savings Account | NatWest
Get rewarded for regular saving. Save £1-£150 each month with a Digital Regular Saver account, our instant access monthly savings account. Apply online.
So if I have let's say $10,000 in my Apple Savings Account. How much interest will I earn after like 1 year? I'm wondering if it's worth it for me to transfer all my money over from bank of america savings or chase savings account to the new Apple Savings. I believe bank of america has only like a 0.03% APY which is extremely bad compared to Apple's 4.15%.
If no money moves in or out except interest it depends how often it compounds:
Yearly would be $415. Monthly would be $422.99
I thought the more you have in your savings, the more interest you will earn? Does anyone know how often it compounds?
You’re right, and with the Apple Savings account, interest is compounded daily and credited to the Savings account monthly.
If I entered the information into the tool right:
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Update: I needed to zero out the “Additional Contributions” field to be correct, I think. So, more like $1,0424, or $424.00.
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It took me seconds to sign up and redirect my Apple Card cash back. For now, that's all I'll use it for as my bank responded by bumping my savings account up to 4.20%. 😅
The interest rate likely won’t be 4.15% for the entire year and will decrease whenever the Fed decides to cut rate (this is expected to happen at some point later this year).
Apple was smart to release this product at the peak of high rates to more effectively capture customer deposits. When rates decline, people likely won’t move their money, but new customers will be less incentivized to put their money there.
All other banks will probably lower their rates as well though, so same diff.
Which is why I said people likely won’t move their money. Just giving people a heads up to not expect a fixed 4.15% throughout the year.
Won’t new customers have the same incentive as now? That being, when everyone’s rates drop, Apple’s will still be higher than most banks?
Just an FYI but I am trying to link an external bank checking acct. and I received the email notice that it has been linked but needs to be verified and to call Goldman Sachs. So far, on hold 54 minutes. HHHHHHHH
And the chat is so worthless too. I tried to ask something on break at work. Still hadn't answered by the time it was over. Then next break it has been closed. Why can't they just save it until I come back and answer again??? And they never fix anything anyhow. They still can't figure out why some merchants still want our old ZIP Code when we moved FIFTEEN months ago. And is it only some? Someone said they had a similar issue with money going to their Apple Savings. Random merchants the money will never show up.
>4% is a pretty compelling rate. Tell someone it’s ~2%, they will be more indifferent to just keeping it in their checking account or would rather invest it in the stock market. As a whole, Apple and other higher yielding saving opportunities would see lower inflows from consumer in a lower rate environment (the pie gets smaller). However, you’d assume that Apple would still capture a larger share of those inflows if they’re paying the most competitive rate.
3% is a compelling rate if someone has their savings in a bank that offers 0.04%, though. Which is what some other banks are offering currently. If Apple goes down to 3% those others could drop to 0.01%… and the 3% would STILL be a better investment than that.
I mean, even 2% is a good deal over 0.01%. Considering how easy it would continue to be for folks to create accounts, there’s going to be a pull as long as the majority of the market still things 1% interest is a thing their customers find attractive
