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Bank
Accounts, Banking Information
What is a Bank Account?
A bank account is
a monetary account with a banking institution that records
the balance of money for a customer. Bank accounts may
have a positive, or credit balance, where the bank owes
money to the customer; or a negative, or debit balance,
where the customer owes the bank money. Bank Accounts
opened with the purpose of holding credit balances are
referred to as deposit accounts; whilst accounts opened with
the purpose of holding debit balances are referred to as
loan accounts.
Some accounts are defined by their function rather than
nature of the balance they hold. Bank accounts designed to
process large numbers of transactions may offer credit and
debit facilities and therefore do not sit easily with a
polarized definition. These transactional accounts are
called by different names in different countries: in the
U.S. and Canada, they are called "checking accounts".
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Types of Bank Accounts Following are
examples of types of bank accounts you may find at various
banks and financial services institutions:
- Checking
account
- Savings
account
- Time
deposit / certificate of deposit
- Negotiable
Order of Withdrawal account
- Automatic
transfer service account
- Money
market deposit account
- Individual
Savings Account
- Tax-Exempt
Special Savings Account
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Bank Account Resources
Following is
information on banking accounts and related banking
information:
| ABA Routing Number |
Information on ABA routing
numbers. How ABA routing numbers are assigned and decoded. |
| Banking Officer Violation Database |
Search legal and regulatory
enforcement actions against banks and banking officers |
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Brainjar.com |
Describes the algorithms for
validating bank routing numbers and credit card numbers using the
checksum built into the number. |
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FDIC Bank Locator |
Allows you to locate
FDIC-insured institutions |
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Gramm-Leach, Bliley Privacy Act |
The Financial Modernization
Act of 1999, also known as the “Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act” or GLB Act,
includes provisions to protect consumers’ personal financial information
held by financial institutions. There are three principal parts to the
privacy requirements: the Financial Privacy Rule, Safeguards Rule and
pretexting provisions. |
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National Check Fraud Center |
Methods to locate a bank
account |
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Routing Number
Verifiers and ACH Phone Lookup |
Verify the validity of any
U.S. Routing number |
List of Bank
Websites for Opening Bank Accounts
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Bank of America |
Open a bank account with Bank
of America. |
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BB&T |
Open a bank account with BB&T |
| J.P. Morgan Chase |
Open a bank account with Chase
Bank |
| Citibank |
Open a bank account with
Citibank |
| SunTrust Bank |
Open a bank account with
SunTrust Bank |
| Regions Bank |
Open a bank account with
Regions Bank |
| Wells Fargo Bank |
Open a bank account with Wells
Fargo bank |
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