But I will not move any funds there yet. Much of my cash is currently at Tang getting 4.1% til the end of October; after that I will see what is available. This includes Hubert's quarterly GIC starting at 3.45% and averaging 3.75% over a year.

Walk on by . . .

Dean

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Peter said
Just noticed Simplii Financial is now purple: https://www.simplii.com/en/new-look.html

But this stood out as more than just branding:

The Simplii Account

One account, that let’s you spend, save, and sort your money.

A new kind of account to help you organize and stay in control of your everyday banking — with more details to come.

Hopefully it will be the end of their silly games when targeting lame promo interest rate offers where they lowball you to see if you'll bite, then come back later if you decline claiming you won and they'll pay more now, which is still too low. In my view their previous brand relaunch was a disaster, no doubt the person who came up with it got promoted with a salary increase.

But this stood out as more than just branding:

The Simplii Account

One account, that let’s you spend, save, and sort your money.

A new kind of account to help you organize and stay in control of your everyday banking — with more details to come.

Oscar said
A few years ago I tried to get a GIC there. Can't recall the details but I had to speak with a rep and was surprised when she told me I had to allow them to do a (soft ?) credit check in order to get the GIC although putting the same amount into my savings account for a promo was fine. I had already been a client for many years at that point and did not agree so could not proceed. Since that time i rarely leave money in my accounts unless they have a promo that suits me, and purchasing a GIC from them is no longer even considered.  

I never understood why a financial institution would do a credit check on you when it is you giving them the money? Does it mean they will refuse to accept your money if your credit score is below their standard? "Sorry we can't accept your money. Please go away."

This credit score thing has run .................

A TD rep tried that with me. I recognized the info he was asking for was for a know-your-client form for an investment account. I told him I'm not interested in mutual funds and there is no requirement for a suitability determination to place funds in a cashable GIC.

I've open many many banks accounts over the years and I've never encountered this. During the account opening process, they didn't tell me it would be a hard credit hit, let alone two of them. This is not required in any way, shape or form for an HISA. By doing this, they are trying to determine what credit services are appropriate to try to sell you and what rate to charge you, even if you have no intention of ever borrowing $ from them. You pay for that in the form of your credit score being reduced. This shouldn't be allowed but here we are.

This is a silly game which I'm sure some AI algo is being trained on to see what's the least number of days, resistance and acceptability threshold and a hundred other parameters there are to test for everyone.

So far I'm not blinking.