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Make your money work

Grow your savings on autopilot, with 0.50% APY1 and Automatic Savings features. Oh, and never pay a fee.4
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Click for details on SpotMe®*, early pay dayˆ, & Credit Builder Visa® Secured Credit Card.

Earn more on every dollar with
on your Chime Savings Account
That’s over
the national average!2
Grow your savings safely until you plan to spend

Set it and forget it

Our Automatic Savings features make it easy to reach your goals faster.

Savings when you spend
We’ll round up each purchase made on your Chime card to the nearest dollar and transfer that amount from your Checking Account to your Savings Account.

Savings when you get paid
Save money with every paycheck so you can achieve your financial goals faster. Automatically transfer a percentage of your paycheck3 directly into your Chime Savings Account.

You’ll need a Chime Checking Account to be eligible for our savings account. Applying for our Checking Account is free and takes less than 2 minutes with no impact to your credit score.

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No fees. No catch. No worries.

No minimum balance requirement, no maximums on interest earned. And no fees.3

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Chime Checking Account and Visa® Debit Card

Your Chime Checking Account comes with a debit card to use everywhere Visa debit cards are accepted.

And unlike some prepaid cards and traditional bank accounts, there are no monthly account fees and minimum
balance requirements.

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Chime Credit Builder Visa® Credit Card

Help increase your credit score by an average of 30 points with our new secured credit card.5 Eligibility requirements apply.6

  • No interest or annual fee
  • No credit check to apply
  • No minimum security deposit required7

Safe, secure & trusted by millions

Your deposit accounts are FDIC insured up to $250,000 through The Bancorp Bank, N.A. or Stride Bank, N.A., Members FDIC and protected by strong encryption.

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We're changing the way you feel about money

Join 10 million members on Chime and feel good about your finances.

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Chime® is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by The Bancorp Bank, N.A. or Stride Bank, N.A., Members FDIC. Deposit insurance covers the failure of an insured bank. Certain conditions must be satisfied for pass-through deposit insurance coverage to apply.

The Chime Visa® Debit Card, the secured Chime Credit Builder Visa® Credit Card, and the secured Chime Visa® Credit Card are issued by The Bancorp Bank, N.A. or Stride Bank, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. and may be used everywhere Visa debit or credit cards are accepted. Please see the back of your Card for its issuing bank.

*SpotMe/Fee-Free Overdraft Chime SpotMe is an optional, no fee service that requires a single deposit of $200 or more in qualifying direct deposits to the Chime Checking Account each month. All qualifying members will be allowed to overdraw their account up to $20 on debit card purchases and cash withdrawals initially, but may be later eligible for a higher limit of up to $200 or more based on member's Chime Account history, direct deposit frequency and amount, spending activity and other risk-based factors. Your limit will be displayed to you within the Chime mobile app. You will receive notice of any changes to your limit. Your limit may change at any time, at Chime's discretion. Although there are no overdraft fees, there may be out-of-network or third party fees associated with ATM transactions. SpotMe won't cover non-debit card transactions, including ACH transfers, Pay Friends transfers, or Chime Checkbook transactions. See Terms and Conditions

^Early Payday/Get Paid Up to Two Days Early Early access to direct deposit funds depends on the timing of the submission of the payment file from the payer. We generally make these funds available on the day the payment file is received, which may be up to 2 days earlier than the scheduled payment date.

1The Annual Percentage Yield (“APY”) for the Chime Savings Account is variable and may change at any time. The disclosed APY is effective as of November 1, 2021. No minimum balance required. Must have $0.01 in savings to earn interest.

2The average national savings account interest rate of 0.06% is determined by FDIC as of November 1, 2021 based on a simple average of rates paid (uses annual percentage yield) by all insured depository institutions and branches for which data are available. Visit https://www.fdic.gov/regulations/resources/rates/ to learn more.

3Save When I Get Paid automatically transfers 10% of your direct deposits of $500 or more from your Checking Account into your savings account.

4There’s no fee for the Chime Savings Account. Cash withdrawal and Third-party fees may apply to Chime Checking Accounts. You must have a Chime Checking Account to open a Chime Savings Account.

5Credit Score Increase based on a representative study conducted by TransUnion®, members who started using Chime Credit Builder in September 2019 observed a median credit score (VantageScore 3.0) increase of 30 points by January 2020. On-time payment history can have a positive impact on your credit score. Late payment may negatively impact your credit score.

6Credit Builder To be eligible to apply for Credit Builder, you need to have received a qualifying direct deposit of $200 or more to your Checking Account within the last 365 days of your application. The qualifying direct deposit must have been made by your employer, payroll provider, or benefits payer by Automated Clearing House (ACH) deposit. Bank ACH transfers, Pay Friends transfers, verification or trial deposits from financial institutions, peer to peer transfers from services such as PayPal, Cash App, or Venmo, mobile check deposits, and cash loads or deposits are not qualifying direct deposits.

7Security Deposit Money added to Credit Builder will be held in a secured account as collateral for your Credit Builder card, which means you can spend up to this amount on your card. This is money you can use to pay off your charges at the end of every month.

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