Submitted by JPowsSecretlover t3_127ifsn in wallstreetbets
Celtic_Legend t1_jeeuvdb wrote
Reply to comment by W2ttsy in "No REALLY, we're doing fine" ~ every bank right now by JPowsSecretlover
My guess is that getting a full 6-8%+ return with less customers is more profit than retaining customers by offering 4% and making 2-4%.
Small banks are happy to offer 5% right now though. Bank of america and chase are offering essentially 0% which are the 2 biggest banks. Cba googling more.
tjonesmachine93 t1_jeh225l wrote
Because banking is sticky. People are more reluctant to change banks than cell phone providers. Consider a big bank like BofA with $2T in deposits. Let’s assume 1/3 is just going to be your average Joe or Joe’s plumbing with 10-20k in checking accounts and another 20k in an emergency savings account. Those accounts are yielding 0.02% currently and have been (or less) for a while. So the price to service these accounts is 130M annually. If they were to just automatically pay a competitive 3-4%, that 130M goes to $20B. They know they are too big to fail and if they experience a run the fed will are in, which they have already. Large banks have literally no reason to pass along a good interest rate to customers bc, frankly, they don’t want their deposits.
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