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National City Bank is now a part of PNC bank. I reported two huge banking bonuses from National City Bank back to 2008. One was offering $200 and another was offering $150. Now the situation of National City Bank has been stabilized and the bonus they are offering right now is only $75.

The promotional link to this $75 bonus can be found here. National City will give you $75 visa gift card for opening a new checking account and do required banking activities. Following is how to get the bonus:

Details about this promotion:

1. Apply online or call 1-866-844-0056 to open your checking account by 03/31/09.

2. Set up direct deposit of your entire paycheck (of at least $250) into your account within the first 60 days – click the tab below to see how our Switch Service can help.

3. Get a free National City Visa CheckCard^** and make at least 10 purchases within the first 60 days.

This promotion ends on March 31, 2009.

National City has a lot of checking account products like Elite Checking, Free Checking Plus, Interest Checking Plus, Interest Checking or free checking.

Actually, PNC Bank was also offering $75 bonus for opening a new checking account and make required direct deposit. But the offer was ended on 02/28/09. Link is here.

It has been a long time for me to not mention banking bonus at mycardblog.com. We all know current economic situation is very bad. Only Chase is offering $100 or $125 checking account bonus all year round. Citi and Bank of America are not offering bonus for opening checking/savings account recently. But there are many regional banks that offer sign up bonuses for opening a new checking/savings account.

Dollar Bank is offering $100 bonus for opening a new checking account with required banking activities. The first $50 bonus will be on your free Dollar Bank debit mastercard. The first $50 on your debit card purchases will be credited back from Dollar Bank. Anther $50 bonus required you to make direct deposit to the new checking account.

Following is how:

1. Open a new FreeMoney checking account with minimum $50 deposit and use your debit card issued from Dollar Bank. The first $50 is free for you. Applies to debit card purchases with a signature only.

2. Make cumulative direct deposits of $250 by 3/31/09 and you will receive the bonus by 04/15/09.

You can open the account online or even request a printable email to your mailbox and bring it to a local branch. Dollar Bank is a federal savings bank headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Priority Club and EverBank is running a promotion from which you can get up to 10,000 bonus points for opening bank account at EverBank. The reason for mention this promotion here is I have other recommendations on how to quickly accumulate Priority Club points.

The promotion for earning bonus priority points is listed on EverBank’s website. EverBank has 4 stars on BankRate’s Safe & Sound ratings system. It is also FDIC insured. Following is how to get the bonus points:

Yield Pledge Money Market Account
Get 5,000 points, a 3-month Bonus Rate, and a high yield all year long.
Plus:
● Free Online Banking
● No maintenance fee on balances above $1,500

FreeNet Checking Account
Get 2,500 points, a 3-month Bonus Rate, and a high yield all year long.
Plus:
● Free Online Banking
● Free check writing
● ATM reimbursement up to $6 per month

Yield Pledge Certificate of Deposit
Get 2,500 points, a choice of terms, and a high yield at opening and rollover.
Plus:
● Convenient maturity reminders
● Automated rollovers

There is no limit on how many accounts you can have at EverBank. You can open all 3 accounts together and get the full 10,000 points!

Priority Club also works with Chase to issue Priority Club Rewards Visa Signature Card. This credit card both have personal and business version. Each credit card is offering 30,000 bonus points! If you spend more than 15,000 annually, you can get 10,000 more bonus points! The card design looks really cool to me.

Priority points can be used to redeem free hotel stays, car rentals, airline tickets etc. If you are interested in priority Club, you can apply for a membership for free.

For those who still don’t have a checking account at Chase or WaMu, there is good news. Chase and WaMu branches will have a new checking account bonus for those who open a new checking account on President’s Day. The bonus is $100 and there is no coupon or promotional code needed. You have to go to your local branches to get the bonus and open a new checking account.

Here’s what you should do to get the bonus:

1. Call your local Chase/Wamu branches and confirm there is a checking account promotion on President’s Day with $100 bonus.

2. Go to your local Chase/WaMu branches and open a new checking account with $100 new money.

3. In order to qualify for the bonus, you have to set up direct deposit from your payroll/PayPal/ING etc and to waive monthly fees.

4. Wait for the $100 bonus show up in your new account.

Also for those who still don’t have a OLD Version Chase Freedom Card which offers 3% cash back on 5 different categories, you can still get one at local Chase Branch. Of course, this offer comes with $50 sign up bonus. The new Chase Freedom Card obviously is not as good as the old one.

Sterling Savings Bank is running a banking promotion from which you can get $101 bonus for completing required banking activities. This is a first report of banking promotion from Sterling Savings Bank here at MyCardBlog.com. It seems this $101 is easy to get for people living in West Coast where most Sterling Savings Bank branches located.

The promotion is listed on its website at www.sterlingsavingsbank.com. The promotion page can be found through this link. This promotion requires you to open a new checking account and complete 3 of 4 banking activities. The 4 banking activities are: bill pay, direct deposit, check card and online statement. If you don’t want to bother your payroll office, you can simply use bill pay, check card and online statement to qualify for the promotion.

Fine print:

To be eligible for the $101 incentive, you must enroll in three of the four following products within 90 days of account opening: Bill Pay, Online Statements, Check Card and/or Direct Deposit and meet specific usage requirements in conjunction with opening a new personal checking account.

Following is how to get the bonus:

You must meet 3 of the following 4 requirements: be enrolled in Free Bill Pay, enrolled in Online Statements, have a minimum of one (1) incoming Direct Deposit or ACH credit on your checking account within 90 days of account opening or use your Check Card a minimum of three (3) times within the first 90 days of account opening. Check Card transactions can be ATM, point-of-sale (POS) with PIN or signature based transactions. According to the usage requirements, ING direct or paypal transfer should be counted as the direct deposit.

You account will be reviewed after 3 months. The $101 will be credited to your checking account within four calendar months of account opening upon meeting usage requirements.

This $101 seems pretty easy to get. But Sterling Savings Bank only has branches at AZ, CA, CO, ID, MT, OR, NV, UT and WA.

Sterling Savings Bank has the BucksBack Platinum Edition Visa Card which offers $50 sign up bonus after first use of this credit card. With this credit card, you can get 1% cash back on all qualifying purchases without annual fee. Another feature is you can actually design the card design by uploading your own photos. It’s a cool credit card to own!

Recently, there are a lot of banking promotions. But this 8 GB Ipod Touch promotion from Bryn Mawr Trust Company is the best one that I have seen so far this year. We all know that a 8 GB Ipod Touch is equal to $200 which is a pretty sweet deal under current financial situation. This promotion is comparable to the $225 Citi Promotion. The only limitation of this promotion is the bonus is only available to PA residents at selected locations.

The promotion was advertised on Philadelphia Inquirer (reported in slickdeals.net). It was ont mentioned on its website www.bmtc.com. Here is the detail of this promotion:

• Open a new checking account with minimum $250 initial deposit
• Direct deposits from payroll or government
• Offer expires on Feb 28, 2009
• Two direct deposits must be received by BMTC by May 15, 2009
• Account must remain open for 1 year or else you’ll be charged $250 by BMTC

This promotion is available at all BMTC locations. You have to pick up the new iPod Touch at local branches by yourself.

If you are lucky enough to live near one of their branches, I strongly suggest you take this chance to get a free iPod Touch by transferring you payroll to BMTC. Or you can split you payroll to two or more different banks to earn more bonuses.

There are many banking promotions recently. Provident Bank is also offering sign up bonus for opening a checking account with direct deposit. This promotion is comparable to the $125 bonus from Chase Bank with direct deposit. If your payroll can split to different bank accounts, you can take the chance to earn $123! If you don’t have a Chase Bank account, you can earn $125! If you open a checking account from Chase and Provident together, you can earn $248 easy money!

The promotion page is listed on its website. The direct link is here.

Here is the promotion detail:

Provident Bank will award $123 to personal checking customers that open a new Totally Free, Regular, Interest or Platinum checking account between February 2 and March 31, 2009 that have direct deposit and an active Provident MasterMoney™ debit card by April 30, 2009. Customers that enroll in Provident Bank’s Power Points debit card rewards program by April 30, 2009 will receive 500 bonus points by May 31, 2009.

Minimum opening deposit of $25 is required for all personal checking accounts. The cash award will be deposited into qualifying personal checking accounts in good standing on or about May 31, 2009. The maximum award for this promotion is $123.

My last mention of the banking promotion from Provident Bank is here.

In summary, the steps to get the $123 bonus are:

Step 1:
Choose and open your checking account, plus order your FREE MasterMoney™ debit card.

Step 2:
Sign up for Direct Deposit.

Step 3:
Start using your new account and get $123.

There is no “HARD PULL” reported during the account opening process.

Citi Bank is advertising its new Checking, Money Market and Credit Card promotion on its home page. According to the promotion details, you can get up to $225 gift card from Citi Bank after finish required banking activities. The $225 gift card will be awarded as thankyou points which can then be redeemed as gift cards. We haven’t seen such a huge promotion from Citi for a while. I think this is a great chance for those who want to get sign up bonuses from Citi.

The link to the promotion page is here. As I mentioned at the first beginning, Citi will give you bonus thankyou points instead of cash this time. The bonus thankyou points can be redeemed through thankyou network. For example, 10,000 thankyou points can be redeemed for a $100 gift card. Following is copied from the website:

Open a qualifying Citibank checking account with ThankYou Network and get bonus ThankYou Points when you perform eligible activities. Get additional points when you open a qualifying Money Market Account. Earn even more when you apply, get approved and perform eligible activities with a qualifying Citi Credit Card. And since you can get monthly ThankYou Points for everyday banking activities, the rewards keep adding up.

It’s apparent that you have to perform all three different banking activities to get the $225 gift card. If you just finish one or two of them, you will only get part of the bonus. Here is the detail:

1. 10,000 ThankYou Points for opening a regular checking account and make $1,000 deposit before 03/31/2009. And you also have to (1) enroll your new checking account in ThankYou Network in 60 days and (2) complete one direct deposit, two eligible electronic bill payments or five signature-based debit card purchase transactions per month for 3 consecutive months.
2. 3,500 ThankYou Points for meeting the checking account offer requirements and opening a new Citibank Ultimate Money Account by 3/31/09 with a $100 minimum opening deposit and link it to the new checking account.
3. 10,000 ThankYou Points for the Citi Diamond Preferred Rewards Card which requires making at least $100 in purchases for the first 3 months of account opening.

Over all, you can get 23,500 bonus thankyou points for completing the required activties. The deadline for this promotion is 03/31/2009. As a reminder, please save the webpage of this promotion.