With more than 15 years of experience crafting content about all aspects of personal finance, Michael Benninger knows how to identify smart moves for your money. His work has been published by Intuit, ...

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Checking accounts provide debit cards, offer direct deposit, let you pay bills and pull cash out of ATMs. Overall, most checking accounts lack originality — especially across small banks and credit ...

A free checking account is one that doesn’t charge a monthly maintenance fee and has a zero minimum balance requirement. There is also no fee charged for things such as overdrafts, ATM withdrawals and ...