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Motive Financial accounts migrating to National Bank
December 1, 2025
5:19 pm
Kyle
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Kyle said
Part of my earlier post from November 27:
I am testing to see if the PAD at Simplii for my Motive (CWB) account still works - just logged into Simplii today and attempted to transfer (pull) $2.00 from that Motive (CWB) chequing account. If things go as usual, it will take about 2 business days before I find out if the $2 was successfully transferred OUT of the corresponding $CDN Progress Account at National Bank and into my account at Simplii.

Has anyone else initiated a transfer (either a push or pull) from an external FI having a pre-existing PAD for a migrated Motive account (now a CDN$ Progress Account). Did the funds transfer successfully?
Thanks!  

Good news - the $2.00 test transfer I initiated from Simplii on Thursday, November 27 to pull funds out of my migrated Motive account (now a CDN$ Progress Account at National Bank) was successful. The $2.00 showed up in my Simplii account this morning (Mon, Dec 1), and the $2.00 was debited from the CDN$ Progress Account that corresponded to the Motive account with the PAD (I had two CDN$ Progress accounts migrated from Motive and only one of them was set-up with a PAD at Simplii, so it was good to see the debit occurred on the correct Progress account). The $2.00 debit transaction on the Progress account at NB was not listed/posted until a bit later the same day (sometime in the afternoon).

Based on this, it appears that existing PAD's set up for Motive accounts at other Financial Institutions are working as promised (for a period of 12 months after the migration).

December 1, 2025
5:33 pm
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grits_to said

Haven't tried this with the Motive to NBC migrated accounts yet, but an alternative way of transferring money out is linking an investing or LOC account (in my case TD Investing trading account) as bill pay. I make the payment to send money, when it arrives at TD I can transfer it to right away to various TD investing or chequing accounts.  

Good idea - Add a line of credit (LOC) or discount broker/investment trading account as a bill payee at National Bank (and transfer funds OUT as a bill payment). I have a discount broker account at a different FI, so that is a possible option for me as well at some future point.
Thanks!

December 2, 2025
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December 3, 2025
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I had a PAD set up to send money from Motive to Simplii. This is no longer available sf-frown

December 3, 2025
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dell15454 said
I had a PAD set up to send money from Motive to Simplii. This is no longer available sf-frown  

Set up a new one at Simplii to pull funds from NBC.

December 3, 2025
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Update on NBoC . . .

We may not like their general rates & fees, but at least our old Motive GICs & SAs are in Good Hands.

    Dean

sf-cool " Live Long, Healthy ... And Prosper! " sf-cool

December 3, 2025
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dell15454 said
I had a PAD set up to send money from Motive to Simplii. This is no longer available

JohnnyCash said

Set up a new one at Simplii to pull funds from NBC.  

Meanwhile, if the PAD is from the Simplii side, it will be honoured and processed by NBC for 12 more months.

December 3, 2025
3:22 pm
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Kyle said

Good idea - Add a line of credit (LOC) or discount broker/investment trading account as a bill payee at National Bank (and transfer funds OUT as a bill payment). I have a discount broker account at a different FI, so that is a possible option for me as well at some future point.
Thanks!  

I can confirm this just worked for me, did a bill pay from the NBC account to TD Investing account yesterday, and showed up today at TD. From there I could transfer to any of my TD accounts.

December 5, 2025
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scrooge said
I ended up with 2 Progress accounts, each under 'The Total' package, one formerly the Motive chequing account and one the former Motive Savvy Savings account, so presumably one earns 1.75% and one earns 0.55% based on the chart.

I can tell which is which only by the balance I had in each, otherwise there is no indication one is earning a different rate than the other. They should certainly display the rate in the details section.

I had only pennies in each, so it does not matter much. No current plans to use these accounts except briefly when my GICs mature, to hold those balances until I complete transfers out.

I also had $0.17 sitting in my Motive TFSA variable account, which is now a TFSA certificate that I can't withdraw, with no maturity date, earning 0% interest. lol. I hope I can withdraw it when my other GICs mature. So I will need to call in about that.

It's good to hear from others that maturity instructions did carry over. However, since my GICs were set to be deposited into my Motive TFSA variable rate savings account on maturity, which is now, as I said, a non accessable certificate earning 0% with no maturity date, and I certainly dont want my large GICs being deposited into that, I will need to call in before the first one matures in January and make sure they are deposited into the NBC TFSA Cash account instead, so I can withdraw.

Waiving the fees indefinately was a nice touch by NBC, but they will have to offer a permanent interest rate boost for former Motive members before I see any real use for these accounts.  

As far as the Motive TFSA VRSA goes, a week before the migration to NB I transferred the total balance to my Motive Savvy Savings account. Once the migration to NB happened I logged into our new NB website & there was a TSFA account showing with a small balance that I assume was from accrued interest? Anyhow the small amount showed as a TFSA GIC instead of cash. I email NB & asked that the small amount be transferred to the NB savings account & it was immediately transferred so I guess it was a cashable GIC?

December 5, 2025
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I called NBC today and they gave me this link which does show the actual interest rate Motive Savvy accounts will receive at NBC

https://welcome.nbc.ca/motive-financial/rates.html

December 5, 2025
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dommm said

.... Once the migration to NB happened I logged into our new NB website & there was a TSFA account showing with a small balance that I assume was from accrued interest? Anyhow the small amount showed as a TFSA GIC instead of cash. I email NB & asked that the small amount be transferred to the NB savings account & it was immediately transferred so I guess it was a cashable GIC?

That wasn't a GIC. That was the National Bank Cash Advantage Solution (CAS) in a TFSA investment account. Motive TFSA savings accounts were migrated to CAS's. Likely same as what Kyle reported.

5.9 Motive Financial Accounts Migrating to Cash Advantage Solution describes what the Motive TFSA Savings Accounts were migrated to.

December 5, 2025
6:43 pm
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I contacted NB today to cancel all my GIC renewals. I was quoted a 15-30 minute wait time which ended up being about 45, but once connected I spoke to a very friendly gentleman with a Quebec accent, so I was relieved to not be directed to an overseas call center.

He set my non registered GICs will mature to my Progress account (he identified which one had the higher interest rate, as I had two accounts migrated like scrooge did) but he could only set the TFSA GICs to mature to the TFSA cash balance. It is not a big deal since I can transfer out of that online myself.

I then wanted to close the lower interest Progress account and change the higher interest one from savings to chequing designation on the debit card. He said he would have to transfer me to a branch department to do that. After 15 minutes on hold (and well over an hour on the phone at that point) I gave up waiting and decided to just keep both accounts.

December 5, 2025
10:27 pm
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dommm said

As far as the Motive TFSA VRSA goes, a week before the migration to NB I transferred the total balance to my Motive Savvy Savings account. Once the migration to NB happened I logged into our new NB website & there was a TSFA account showing with a small balance that I assume was from accrued interest? Anyhow the small amount showed as a TFSA GIC instead of cash. I email NB & asked that the small amount be transferred to the NB savings account & it was immediately transferred so I guess it was a cashable GIC?  

Thanks for that info, I will try email also and get mine transferred.

December 6, 2025
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Norman1 said

dommm said

.... Once the migration to NB happened I logged into our new NB website & there was a TSFA account showing with a small balance that I assume was from accrued interest? Anyhow the small amount showed as a TFSA GIC instead of cash. I email NB & asked that the small amount be transferred to the NB savings account & it was immediately transferred so I guess it was a cashable GIC?

That wasn't a GIC. That was the National Bank Cash Advantage Solution (CAS) in a TFSA investment account. Motive TFSA savings accounts were migrated to CAS's. Likely same as what Kyle reported.

5.9 Motive Financial Accounts Migrating to Cash Advantage Solution describes what the Motive TFSA Savings Accounts were migrated to.  

All I can say for sure is when I logged into my NB account & clicked the TFSA tab a new page opened & on that page it clearly showed 0.00 Cash Balance & just below that it clearly showed in the My GIC's section an $8.87 amount.

December 6, 2025
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scrooge said

Thanks for that info, I will try email also and get mine transferred.  

Once logged in on the left side you will see "Help & contacts". If you click on that you will see a "Contact us" tab. Once you click that tab you will see "Send an email" which opens a new box where you can make the request. gl

December 7, 2025
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I called NBC to confirm instructions on a GIC that was maturing the next day. The wait time was ridiculous, 45 min, but once I finally connected with a CSR they were helpful. I had the GIC mature into one of the migrated accounts and I immediately pulled everything using Tangerine (the 5 day hold sucks). I can now close all my accounts with NBC.

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