More free offers on current accounts

The investigation of the Stiftung Warentest has come to the conclusion that one can always worthwhile to change checking accounts, more than 200 € per year can be saved in this way. The crux of the whole are often associated with the cost of freedom conditions.

The number of free current accounts currently takes to grow strongly, but there are almost exclusively innovative direct banks, which can afford a model with no account maintenance fees “. 50 of 73 in the test checked while banks offered a free salary, wage or pension account, classical branch banks are found, however, as not so good. With the nationwide branch banks will make the norisbank an exceptional position to – there is actually a free account with credit card. Regionally limited to the charges waived for account management is at Sparda and PSD banks.

The differences in the tested free offer is substantial. Great importance is in this context, the required monthly Mindestgeleingang. The question on the cash withdrawal and the costs involved, of course, plays a major role. Especially bad is the situation with the customer in the cash pool merged banks: In the whole of Germany there are only 2,500 ATMs, at which a free reference is possible. Who is on the bank customer has, for example, the choice among more than 24000 ATMs. Very large were the differences of interest on the disposition credit. Here, the individual banks were with their offers apart about eight percent (range seven to almost 15 percent).

Despite all this – a change worth checking accounts – and the world recently observed – indeed. For example, the known direct ING-Diba an hourly wage calculated from 72 €, when one compares the amount of time necessary for changing the calculated value for three years.
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