- Get FREE Hot Dogs At Brooklyn Bridge Park Throughout The Summer by Michael W Travels. If you’ve been a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know how I feel about free stuff, especially free food!
- JPMorgan Chase takes smartphone account ‘Finn’ nationwide by Reuters. Strange that this official announcement is only coming out now, given that it really launched nationwide in early June.
- Chipotle Is Planning to Close Up to 65 Stores—But It Will Add a Happy Hour Menu by Fortune. Normally I wouldn’t include something like this, but some readers are crazy for Chipotle.
- Visa, Mastercard Near Settlement Over Card-Swipe Fees by WSJ.
Deals expiring at the end of today (view the full deal calendar here):
- Wells Fargo $200 Checking Bonus [Select Areas Only; No DD Required]
- HSBC $200-$750 Checking Bonus – Direct Deposit Not Required
- Barclays JetBlue Business Card – 40,000 Point Bonus
- [AZ, FL, IL, IN, KS, MO, MN and WI] BMO Harris $200 Checking Bonus – Available Online
- Discover Savings Bonus $150/$200 with $15,000/$25,000 Deposit
- Coke Rewards: $2 Amazon.com Giftcard For One Code
- Samsung Pay Rewards: Earn 4x Points Until June 29th, 2018
- Giant, Stop&Shop, Martin’s: 2x Fuel Points on Mastercard Gift Cards [6/29-7/5]
Back in March, I gave Finn a try – I’m not in St. Louis (about 3-4 hours away actually), but at that time they were accepting applications and I figured to basically do almost nothing for an account with no requirements at get $50 was worth my time (I know, “real” Chase checking promos are better). I had always liked Simple (didn’t really use their goals), and thought this might not run into some of the account snafus people had, especially since it still looked like a regular Chase branch _might_ be able to do some things with it.
Needless to say, I didn’t buy into all the features, but gave it a try and it feels like a real Chase checking account in most respects minus the fees, ability to write checks, and that you can use the Finn app or the regular Chase app/web site. I’ve mostly used it for bill pay and loading Apple Pay Cash (Discover Bank’s debut card still doesn’t work with that) and many Chase ATMs around me have NFC, which is nice. The other neat thing is that the debit card works in Allpoint ATMs where Chase doesn’t have a presence for free (and you don’t have to go to another state—it worked in the next town over from me).
If you can put up with some of the “how do you do, fellow kids?” features and marketing, it’s not a half-bad option for a spare checking account that looks and acts like a regular Chase one (as opposed to some of the banking services that use Bancorp Bank or Simple, which is now using parent BBVA for the backend). It also would be an option if you want a Chase account (maybe to keep the same login/management as your credit cards?), but live outside of its footprint.
That’s odd… they just opened a new store in our city… John 3:16
I once had crazy sickness thanks to Chipotle!