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                    <title>JohnnyCash on TD F’26 Q2 Savings Deposit Offer</title>
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					                        <description><![CDATA[<p>What's the offer work out to if it were an interest rate and is the payout taxable?</p>
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					                    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:51:17 -0700</pubDate>
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                    <title>hwyc on TD F’26 Q2 Savings Deposit Offer</title>
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					                        <description><![CDATA[<p>Practically a short-term GIC offer from TD<br />
<a href="https://www.td.com/ca/en/personal-banking/new-bank-account-offers-promotions/2026q2savings">TD F’26 Q2 Savings Deposit Offer</a></p>
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F’26 Q2 Savings Deposit Offer (Terms and Conditions)<br />
March 16, 2026 – April 30, 2026</p>
<p>Earn up to $5,000 in Cash with certain deposits.</p>
<p>The up to $5,000 cash offer (the "Cash Offer") is available to TD customers who:</p>
<p>a.     Are Canadian residents and are the age of majority in their province or territory of residence as of March 16, 2026</p>
<p>b.     Are registered for the offer via the campaign registration form <u>at a TD Branch</u> by April 30, 2026</p>
<p>c.     Open a new TD Savings Account, either a TD ePremium Savings Account, TD Every Day Savings Account, or TD Growth<em>TM</em> Savings Account ("New Savings Account") between March 16, 2026 – April 30, 2026, OR have an existing TD Savings Account, either a TD ePremium Savings Account, TD Every Day Savings Account, or TD Growth Savings Account ("Existing Savings Account"); and</p>
<p>d.     Deposit or transfer a minimum of $10,000 or more directly into the New Savings Account or Existing Savings Account from another financial institution(s) and maintain the balance for 90 days in the account (the "Qualifying Deposit"), subject to the following:</p>
<p>i.      The Qualifying Deposit must be in the New Savings Account or Existing Savings Account by no later than April 30, 2026.</p>
<p>ii.      The Qualifying Deposit must be maintained in the New Savings Account or Existing Savings Account for a minimum of 90 days from May 1, 2026 – July 29, 2026.</p>
<p>iii.      If a customer withdraws or transfers any part of the Qualifying Deposit during the 90-day period, the amount of the Qualifying Deposit will be subtracted and calculated accordingly. Should this adjustment cause the Qualifying Deposit to fall below the required minimum of $10,000, the customer will be ineligible for the offer.</p>
<p>iv.      If a customer has multiple TD Savings Accounts, the Qualifying Deposits in the New Savings Account or Existing Savings Account cannot be combined, and the amount of the Qualifying Deposit will instead be based solely on the TD Savings Account with the greatest Qualifying Deposit.</p>
<p>v.     For greater certainty, funds originating from an account held at TD, including, but not limited to, transfers originating from account(s) held at TD and cash withdrawn from another TD account, do not count towards the Qualifying Deposit.</p>
<p>The following are not eligible for the Savings Deposit Offer:</p>
<p>a.    Customers who open a new TD Unlimited Chequing Account or TD All-Inclusive Banking Plan with a new TD Savings Account between March 4, 2026 and April 30, 2026, as part of the TD New to Bank Offer or New to Canada Banking Package Offer.</p>
<p>At the end of the 90-day period, the amount of the Savings Deposit Offer (maximum $5,000) will be determined according to the amount of the Qualifying Deposit at that time, based on the following chart:</p>
<p>Qualifying Deposit	<em><strong>Cash Offer</strong></em><br />
$10,000.00 to $24,999.99	<em><strong>$200</strong></em><br />
$25,000.00 to $49,999.99	<em><strong>$350</strong></em><br />
$50,000.00 to $99,999.99	<em><strong>$500</strong></em><br />
$100,000.00 to $249,999.99	<em><strong>$1,000</strong></em><br />
$250,000.00 to $499,999.99	<em><strong>$2,500</strong></em><br />
$500,000.00 	<em><strong>$5,000</strong></em></p>
<p>Limit of one Savings Deposit Offer per eligible account. Limit of one Savings Deposit Offer per customer. The Savings Deposit Offer is limited to a maximum of $5,000. For any New Savings Account or Existing Savings Account that is a joint account, at least one account holder must meet the eligibility requirements.</p>
<p>The Savings Deposit Offer will be deposited to the New Savings Account or Existing Savings Account where the Qualifying Deposit was deposited, within 12 weeks after all required conditions have been met, provided that the New Savings Account or Existing Savings Account is still open, in good standing, and all conditions continuing to be met at the time of fulfillment.</p>
<p>There may be tax implications associated with the Cash Offer. Customers should consult with their personal tax advisor for more information.</p>
<p>For information about transactions and a complete list of account fees, see About Our Accounts and Related Services. We can change, extend, or withdraw the Cash Offer at any time.  
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					                    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:27:05 -0700</pubDate>
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                    <title>smayer97 on Avoiding deposit holds on e-transfers?</title>
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<p>savemoresaveoften said<br />
…. Which is why the daily limit is set low at $3000 and I was told its set by Interac not the bank.  …
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<p>Interac has a system wide limit of $25,000 per e-Transfer.  All the other limits are set by the banks.</p>
<p>If a bank is comfortable with the risk, it can allow $25,000 per e-Transfer and something like $200,000 of outgoing e-Transfers per day.</p>
<p>RBC will allow a higher daily limit (up to $10,000 per day) if one is willing to use their RBC Mobile app, instead of their RBC Online Banking web site, to originate the Interac e-Transfers.  </p>
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<p>They are in the process of rolling out this new limit to all customers for online banking too. It comes with a lower limit to be authenticated, at $1,500/day.</p>
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					                    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:25:12 -0700</pubDate>
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                    <title>savemoresaveoften on Avoiding deposit holds on e-transfers?</title>
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<p>savemoresaveoften said<br />
…. Which is why the daily limit is set low at $3000 and I was told its set by Interac not the bank.  …
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<p>Interac has a system wide limit of $25,000 per e-Transfer.  All the other limits are set by the banks.</p>
<p>If a bank is comfortable with the risk, it can allow $25,000 per e-Transfer and something like $200,000 of outgoing e-Transfers per day.</p>
<p>RBC will allow a higher daily limit (up to $10,000 per day) if one is willing to use their RBC Mobile app, instead of their RBC Online Banking web site, to originate the Interac e-Transfers.  </p>
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<p>speaking of comfort level, slightly off topic but BMO only allow a mobile deposit daily max of $5000, any cheque beyond that amount can only be deposited at a branch or thru the ATM. Yet they encourage their new customer to start using the account immediately and make it the main bank to use, yet making it so difficult to someone making a deposit at the same time.....</p>
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					                    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:33:31 -0700</pubDate>
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                    <title>rakitoon on Avoiding deposit holds on e-transfers?</title>
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					                        <description><![CDATA[<p>This sparked more of a convo than I anticipated. </p>
<p>Thank you Norman, and all of you. I am confident now in my understanding of the transfer policies of the institutions listed on the HISA/GIC rates page here.</p>
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					                    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:22:10 -0700</pubDate>
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                    <title>Norman1 on Avoiding deposit holds on e-transfers?</title>
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<p><strong>Y.S. said </strong><br />
Per the useful comment by @rakitoon, I can attest to a truly annoying waste of time chasing the claims of e-transfer for Oaken.  Finally I deduced (as probably is known to other users of this forum) that the use of the term refers simply to the electronic nature of a funds transfer to or from an Oaken account.  Oaken does not offer an electronic transfer by Interac. …
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<p>Those transfers, by paperless direct deposit or pre-authorized debit, are called Automated Funds Transfers (AFT).  Some credit unions call them Me-to-Me Transfers.</p>
<p>Banks offer them to their business banking clients as Customer Automated Funds Transfers (CAFT).</p>
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					                    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:06:42 -0700</pubDate>
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                    <title>Norman1 on Avoiding deposit holds on e-transfers?</title>
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<p><strong>savemoresaveoften said </strong><br />
…. Which is why the daily limit is set low at $3000 and I was told its set by Interac not the bank.  …
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<p>Interac has a system wide limit of $25,000 per e-Transfer.  All the other limits are set by the banks.</p>
<p>If a bank is comfortable with the risk, it can allow $25,000 per e-Transfer and something like $200,000 of outgoing e-Transfers per day.</p>
<p>RBC will allow a higher daily limit (up to $10,000 per day) if one is willing to use their RBC Mobile app, instead of their RBC Online Banking web site, to originate the Interac e-Transfers.</p>
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					                    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:59:05 -0700</pubDate>
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                    <title>Y.S. on Avoiding deposit holds on e-transfers?</title>
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					                        <description><![CDATA[<p>Per the useful comment by <strong>@rakitoon</strong>, I can attest to a truly annoying waste of time chasing the claims of e-transfer for Oaken.  Finally I deduced (as probably is known to other users of this forum) that the use of the term refers simply to the electronic nature of a funds transfer to or from an Oaken account.  Oaken does not offer an electronic transfer by Interac.  Thus I wasn't able to transfer my Oaken $$ directly to another institution via my email:  I had to wait for their hold time on the pull to expire.  Oh well, live and learn.</p>
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					                    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:42:18 -0700</pubDate>
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                    <title>MG on Avoiding deposit holds on e-transfers?</title>
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					                        <description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Some have even raised the daily limit to $10K but rely on per transaction authentication methods.</strong>  </p>
<p>Yes, I recently tried to avail the increased interac limits with CIBC.  I recall trying to send about $5,000 and was unable to do so.  Eventually I figured out that I had to send in two tranches - one for $3,000 and the second for $2,000.</p>
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					                    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:32:43 -0700</pubDate>
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                    <title>smayer97 on Avoiding deposit holds on e-transfers?</title>
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<p><strong>savemoresaveoften said </strong></p>
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All the FI's I use do not hold interac transfers. Thought that was the only point of Interac.  </p>
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<p>exactly my understaning and expectation. Which is why the daily limit is set low at $3000 and I was told its set by Interac not the bank.<br />
However lately I see both WS and CIBC will raise the daily and weekly limit etc if they see enough acitivities and assets in the account to support the increase.<br />
Still too small to move money around but at least no hold compares to pulling which is min 4-5 biz days at all banks.  </p>
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<p>Though there is a overall limit set by Interac, it seems banks have their own limits. Daily and weklly do vary between banks/FIs. Some have even raised the daily limit to $10K but rely on per transaction authentication methods.</p>
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					                    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:44:38 -0700</pubDate>
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                    <title>rakitoon on Avoiding deposit holds on e-transfers?</title>
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<p><strong>Poor Richard said </strong><br />
All the FI's I use do not hold interac transfers. Thought that was the only point of Interac.  If you need instant access to transferred funds, "push" them instead of pulling. I too have a FI that only offers Interac e-transfers, but no problem setting them up for pushing funds from other FI's in. Assume Oaken is no different.  </p>
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<p>Oaken is in fact different. Only ways to deposit are to pull money in from a linked external acct (with hold up to 5 biz days), or use the old offline methods.</p>
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					                    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:12:01 -0700</pubDate>
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                    <title>savemoresaveoften on Avoiding deposit holds on e-transfers?</title>
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<p><strong>Poor Richard said </strong><br />
All the FI's I use do not hold interac transfers. Thought that was the only point of Interac.  </p>
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<p>exactly my understaning and expectation. Which is why the daily limit is set low at $3000 and I was told its set by Interac not the bank.<br />
However lately I see both WS and CIBC will raise the daily and weekly limit etc if they see enough acitivities and assets in the account to support the increase.<br />
Still too small to move money around but at least no hold compares to pulling which is min 4-5 biz days at all banks.</p>
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					                    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:44:00 -0700</pubDate>
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                    <title>Poor Richard on Avoiding deposit holds on e-transfers?</title>
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					                        <description><![CDATA[<p>All the FI's I use do not hold interac transfers. Thought that was the only point of Interac.  If you need instant access to transferred funds, "push" them instead of pulling. I too have a FI that only offers Interac e-transfers, but no problem setting them up for pushing funds from other FI's in. Assume Oaken is no different.</p>
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					                    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:17:19 -0700</pubDate>
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                    <title>Norman1 on Avoiding deposit holds on e-transfers?</title>
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<p><strong>rakitoon said </strong><br />
… My experience has been with Oaken, which is probably an outlier in that it doesn't offer banking services. I can only move funds there by pulling, but mistakenly thought this hold policy was something that applied to moving funds between "alternative" banks/CU's. </p>
<p>I am reading you as saying that most any of the other banks/CUs listed here should place no hold on e-transferred funds (in a reasonable amount). That's great! Thanks again. 
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<p>There's usually no hold on funds moved by Interac e-Transfers.  But, pulling funds is not done by an Interac e-Transfer.  Pulling is done by a pre-authorized debit.  So, there usually is a hold for funds pulled.</p>
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					                    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:13:57 -0700</pubDate>
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                    <title>Bill on Avoiding deposit holds on e-transfers?</title>
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					                        <description><![CDATA[<p>Just yesterday someone called me to e-transfer their daily max ($3K) to my TD account, gave them my email address and I saw it hit my TD account instantly as we were still talking on the phone, couple minutes later I'd transferred it out to another FI.  I like e-transfers a lot.</p>
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					                    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:25:47 -0700</pubDate>
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