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Is there a way to maximise earnings from Savings Account?
This is my first post, so I will start with a basic idea – Savings account. It is usually the first fundamental instrument that I am sure most of us would already be having. Now, I can guess most of us would be having an account with some major PSB (Public Sector Bank) like SBI or some of other major private banks like ICICI, HDFC etc.
During my initial research about a year back, I thought why can’t we have our primary savings account in any other nationalised bank which offers a lot more benefits with a lot less cost? I shortlisted a few tier-2 private banks, researched and finally went ahead with RBL (Ratnakar Bank Limited).
Benefits – Depending on the type of account. Following are some of the benefits for an account with minimum balance of Rs 25000.
Drawbacks – not major ones but depending on your location and how you perceive it
Here is the benefits comparison with actual numbers:
There is clearly an yearly interest benefit of Rs 2,068 when we have an avg account balance of Rs 1 Lac. Other banks would have changed their interest rates that I am not aware of but there is usually a 2% interest gap between RBL and some other major private banks.
This earnings potential is without even taking into consideration the costs involved for other large private banks’ misc. services.
I hope you would find this information useful and helpful if you ever plan to switch banks. There may be quite a few tier 2 banks similar to the above that I have experienced having more benefits than the big names. Feel free to leave your comments / error / suggestions / questions. I will be happy to answer as much as I can.
P.S.– The above information is solely based on my experience and I do have an account with RBL. The info presented above may have changed. So please do look at respective Bank’s websites before taking any decisions. This is not an advise to switch your bank – but just some food for thought to look for Tier 2 banks if you plan to ever do so.
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