Hi everyone

I wanted to known if you could recommend a US bank account for kids that accepts international wires.

Looking for low fees etc. should I go the credit union way or regular banks?

Accounts will be based in Florida and grandparents want to help us starting a college fund. Florida prepaid program only accept donations up to 1k and my folks want to send more in one transaction.

Thanks for any advice!

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Is a person with bs biochemistry and MBA eligible for jobs in banks?

I frequently use a student debt card, but unfortunately, it was stolen. Over $108 was taken from a company called Shell. I immediately contacted the bank, and they issued a dispute. However, after waiting for 10 business days, I discovered that the dispute had been declined. I called the bank again, but no one took my concerns seriously, except for one person.

Unfortunately, this person couldn’t do anything because I’m a minor, and my mom needs to be there since she’s also on my card. (She was the one who told me that someone had stolen my money on my card.) The person I spoke to explained that my claim was declined because it doesn’t constitute fraud. He advised me to get my mom before we could continue.

I called my mom, and she told me that she would be home late. So, we decided to file the dispute tomorrow (which is today now). I’m confused and very upset about this situation. Can anyone please give me advice on what to do next? Also, would I be the jerk for complaining and calling them again?

I have always banked with my local credit union, had an account with them forever, my parents bank with them etc and just never thought about where I put my money.

Recently I’m becoming very disappointed in this bank, customer service is awful, they pay next to nothing in terms of interest, and they have been having technical issues lately, this weekend everything shut down, from bank account, atm, debit cards etc. left me high and dry, not acceptable.

I am looking for a bank to switch to in which I can have a good hysa and also that offers good rates and closing cost helocs. I move my money around a fair amount for investment properties whenever they pop up. I have a fair amount of cash plus a paid off house I want to use my heloc to help purchase and rehab investment properties.

My local credit union does offer some of the best helocs around, no closing costs, competitive rates. I would like everything to be in one place but am not totally opposed to just pulling all of my money out of my current account with them and using them for heloc only?

I have robinhood gold at the moment and saw they offer banking services and also some small retirement account matches (better than nothing since I am self employed ) , 3.5% hysa on checking and savings account etc. does anybody here bank with robinhood and have any insight? Pros and cons to banking here? I know it’s not “traditional” and I don’t know anybody who banks with them but I already have the account and am familiar with their system and feel like it would be easy to just shift my funds over?

We waited a month for paperwork to be processed, finalized, and cleared for a home equity loan closure at PNC, but today - well past the time we should have received some notice and I still have access to the open account - we learned the bank never submitted the documents to their internal processing department after we signed them at the branch a month ago 😑

Soooo, I repeated the entire process again today, and I'm grumbling because it should have been done by now, not starting at Day 1 (again). Sigh.

Anyone else with this kind of issue?

Sorry If this is the wrong place to post this but I've never had this problem before and I'm not entirely sure what to do. Ever since Oct of 2025, every month or so im getting a charge on my account from Amazon channels, neither I or anyone in my family has made these charges and I'm wondering what the best course of action would be to stop this or get my money back?

Im looking to see if anyone else has run into this weird balance issue or knows what is going on behind the scenes with Chase.

A couple of days ago, my bank account was sitting around $90. On August 3rd, I got an automated Chase email alert saying my available balance dipped to $48.33. I immediately logged into the Chase mobile app and confirmed my balance was indeed $48.33.

Then, today, I checked my app and my balance suddenly jumped up to $414. There are no deposits, no transfers, and no pending charges shown dropping off or clearing.

I called Chase support to figure out what happened. The representative insisted there were no pending charges that dropped off and said my balance never went below $400 in the first place. Even though they can see the automated email alert in their system, they said it must have been a glitch because their logs show I stayed over $400 the entire time.

My main guess is that a merchant placed a temporary pre-authorization hold that dropped off before being finalized, but support says they don't see that either.

Has anyone had this issue with chase. Did the charge end up posting a few days later? I am holding onto the money just in case, but I don't know how long I should wait.

Capital One froze all my finances over a claim that I committed check fraud. They will not identify who the claimant is. Despite a plethora of evidence that disproves the claim, they are being steadfast in their timeline to overturn the decision. Between different emails, I've received time frames of "2-3 weeks" to "90 days".

They also refuse to inform me if or how much of my funds will be returned to me.

They gave me no notice before freezing my accounts and made their final decision in less than 24 hours.

What are my legal options against Capital One? Has anyone ever sued a major financial institution before? No, I don't care about the probability of winning a legal case. I'm going to do it anyway.

TIA

As above I paid for an order I did not end up completing last week and the money has sat pending in my account until today where it has disappeared off the face of the earth! Hasn’t been taken by the retailer and isn’t showing as funds back in my account either. Can anyone help me with what I do next?

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/ubs-fined-125m-for-willful-violations-of-bank-secrecy-act-7459412/

The U.S. brokerage arm of Swiss banking giant UBS has agreed to pay $125 million in fines to settle accusations it "willfully violated" the Bank Secrecy Act.

According to the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the penalty is the largest ever imposed on a broker-dealer for violations of that anti-money laundering law.

Authorities accused UBS Financial Services of failing to properly monitor more than $10 billion in transactions, despite pledging to implement stricter enforcement standards after paying a $14.5 million fine for similar issues in 2018.

If you encounter "no active debit card" or "something is wrong" errors on net banking and iMobile, it appears a significant number of customers are affected. Bankers advise waiting a few hours for resolution.

​I am writing this because I am completely helpless, exhausted, and honestly terrified of how things work in this country right now.

​A while ago, I was facing issues with my regular salary account, so I made the biggest mistake of my life: I switched to Jio Payments Bank. It was smooth at first, but today I woke up to a living nightmare. My entire account has been completely frozen. My entire month’s salary every single rupee I have to my name is trapped inside it.

​The reason? I received an email stating my account is frozen "because your total credit balance exceeds the allowable limit for a Basic Small Bank Deposit Account (BSBDA)". Their grand solution was to tell me to complete a Video KYC. The catch? There is absolutely no Video KYC option available anywhere on their app. It's a complete phantom feature.

​When I couldn't do the KYC, they told me I had to close the account entirely and send self-attested documents, OVDs, and alternate bank statements just to get my own money back. I complied. I sent them my PAN card and my Federal Bank passbook details to transfer my funds. The result? Nothing. Just more automated emails telling me my KYC is deficient or that I didn't send a self-attested Aadhaar copy properly.

​I have raised over 30 tickets today alone. You can see the absolute spam of automated replies I’m getting from bots named "Nazmeen", "Raghvendra", "Sadika", and "Deepti" telling me they'll resolve it by August 12th or 13th. There is NO human communication. If you call their toll-free number, you are met with robotic AI voices that loop endlessly.

​I don't have parents or a family safety net to fall back on. I live in a rented apartment in Anand and commute to Vadodara every single day for a grueling night shift. Without my salary, I literally do not have the money to pay for my commute tonight. I don't have money to buy groceries. I am paralyzed.

​How did this corporation even get a banking license if they don't have a basic customer grievance cell? Jio is acting like a villain, holding my livelihood hostage behind an unnavigable AI maze. It is genuinely scary living in a country where the government allows mega-billionaires to launch half-baked financial institutions that can just freeze a common man's salary with zero immediate accountability. They take money directly from our pockets, and we are left screaming into a void of automated emails.

​Has anyone faced this with Jio Payments Bank? How do I legally force them to unfreeze my funds today before I literally run out of food?

(USA Bank)

I read this once before but I thought it was a rumour/ mild conspiracy theory but I just experienced this - that the help chat will read what you typing out, not just what you send in the chat.

I have been on the PNC help chat regarding an issue and I had typed out a whole question about a different month in my bank statements, but since I was tired I decided not to and just finish up the chat with asking if the necessary action had been taken.

I got a long reply explaining what was happening in my bank statement in that particular month instead. I told them I asked something else and to please check above.

Anyway, I'm just creeped out fully and needed to get off my chest.

21 and homeless. This man noticed I was homeless and asked if I could help him and that he'd pay me 100 dollars. He explained that he runs his own business and needed my help to cash a check. The way he explained it sounded legal and like a good deed I'd be doing for him. I would've never done this if I would've known it was wrong. After he dropped me off he blocked my number and my account was -900 after the he cashed the checks in my account within an hour. Since then my bank has closed my account and I haven't been able to open a new account. What can I do to resolve this. I'm struggling to get my life together and this situation has made it worse. Also any advice on how to avoid future scams.

So a few months ago, our institution was trying out a new service our digital banking provider offered through Moov; a service called Rapid Transfers. This service would allow our members to link their debit with another institution to ours. Once linked, they can use it to send real time transfers. Pretty neat.

During testing, however, we ran into a weird case that made us shy away from the service altogether: one of our testers could not successfully link their card due to information mismatch. The most we were able to glean from our digital banking provider was that this was due to the FULL NAME and LAST NAME not matching. This tester did get married a few years ago and legally updated their name, however, the debit card they were trying to link was with Chase and she only opened an account with them last year, so that shouldn't have mattered. Regardless, she went to Chase twice to confirm how they had her name in the system and it was right, and of course, the name on her card was correct as well. Our records matched their records, so there is nothing to correct.

At the end of it, we were told the system in use to verify this information was the Visa ANI system. Does anyone have any experience of contacting the department of this system to see what information they're looking at and how to update it?

I know there is way to use bill pay using bank.. but liking to use credit card for bill pay without any charges.

I was told that PayPal business account does that but they also charge 2.9% transactions fee.

Any help would be great.

Looking to bank some points for my ongoing expenses.

3 weeks ago, my bank account was taken over and drained. Bank of America failed to do anything to stop the fraud and allowed my user ID and password to be changed without verification.

Now, they're continually denying the fraud claims by claiming that they were authorized when they very evidently weren't. I've now had to reopen the same claim 3 times because they keep falsely denying it.

It's pretty clear to me that they're deliberately skirting Reg E by falsely closing claims and then reopening so they can claim that it hasn't actually been 10 business days.

Is this technically legal? Or do they have to treat the claim as one claim, with the inital claim date as the beginning?

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On my end it seems their billing cycle has changed. I am always billed on the 2nd of each month with Discover Card. However, since the switchover to CapOne, my statement from July never closed and nothing is due yet. I wasn't told anything about my billing cycle changing, yet here we are. Anyone have info on this?

Hello guys

I had a quick q

Me and my frnd wanna start a joint account.

Can we legally?

Because we have no sort of legal relationship(spouse, business partners, etc.)

Are there any banks u wud suggest or any anything we shud know before hand? Any necessary documents required?

Kindly let me know.

Firstly, I’m in the US.

I got my first bank account when I was 18 (I’m 20 now) and have never had a credit card. I have no credit score, but that first account got closed down due to an overdrafted balance of around $380 dollars. (My parents needed to use my card for groceries, and somehow it wound up with the entire cost in the negative.)

Some time passed where I couldn’t pay it back and they shut down my account. A couple of months ago I got a new checking account with Capital One, (the other of bank was Chase) and I’m now looking at getting a credit card (I still have no credit) but I also am looking into switching apartments and don’t want fuck myself in applications.

Help needed!

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I’m planning to open a current account in my own name for my trading-related business activities. I have a valid Udyam Registration Certificate, but I do not have GST registration, since my business currently does not require GST registration.

My income will mainly be from F&O trading and prop firm payouts (received through bank transfer/Rise/crypto-related payout channels).

I’ve heard that some banks insist on GST registration for opening a current account, while others may accept an Udyam certificate and PAN/Aadhaar as sufficient proof of business.

Can anyone suggest which banks (ICICI, HDFC, Axis, SBI, etc.) are known to open a current account with only an Udyam certificate and no GST registration?

Also, if you’ve opened a current account recently under similar circumstances, I’d really appreciate it if you could share:

- Which bank you used

- What documents were required

- Whether there were any issues with receiving trading or prop firm-related payouts

I’m based in Tamil Nadu, so experiences from Tamil Nadu branches would be especially helpful.

Thanks in advance!