The bank product most customers use every day is their checking account. Never have there been so many attractive options offered. But, which is the best bank for you? Luckily, there are plenty of opinions out there to help you choose among the many options.
To make it easier to find the best banks, BankScoop rounded up the most helpful recommendations from some of the best financial blogs and published summaries and links here. So, let’s get right to it:
Nerdwallet.com put out its 10 Best Online Checking Accounts of 2019 earlier this month. Nerdwallet.com acts as a portal to various banks and receives a fee when their visitors click links to the banks listed in their “best of” lists. Their assessments are fair and informative, but we’ll provide direct links to these banks in the list below. Here are the Best Checking Accounts of 2019 per Nerdwallet.com:
- Radius Bank – Hybrid Checking
- Aspiration – Summit Account
- Chime – Chime Banking
- Axos Bank – Rewards Checking
- Simple – Simple
- Alliant Credit Union – High Rate Checking
- Discover – Cash Back Debit
- USAA Bank – Classic Checking
- Ally – Interest Checking
Savingsaccounts.com lists the following checking options as their favorites (NOTE: Savingsaccounts.com also receives payment for banks who advertise on their site, so take that into consideration as you review their list):
- Simple – Simple
- Chase Bank – Chase Total Checking
- Chase Bank – Chase Premier Plus Checking
- HSBC Bank – Advance Checking
- HSBC Bank – Premier Checking
- Chase Bank – Chase Sapphire Checking
- HSBC Bank – Choice Checking
TheBalance.com lists the following as their picks as Best Checking Accounts of 2019:
- Charles Schwab Bank – High Yield Investor Checking
- Ally – Interest Checking
- Capital One – 360 Checking
- Discover – Cash Back Debit
- USAA Bank – Cash Back Rewards Checking
- Simple – Simple
- Chime – Chime Banking
- Chase Bank – Various
When you’ve found a bank you like, check out what customers say about those banks in our reviews section. Happy hunting!