home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Path: sparky!uunet!nih-csl.dcrt.nih.gov!singley
- From: singley@helix.nih.gov (Erick Singley)
- Subject: Re: Foreign ATM Fees
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.172033.26531@alw.nih.gov>
- Sender: singley@clinpharm.niaaa.nih.gov
- Organization: (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD)
- References: <1htrvuINN975@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec31.052924.13526@Princeton.EDU> <1992Dec31.064421.9633@netcom.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:20:33 GMT
- Lines: 19
-
- >Now the question is, are there banks or S&Ls which allow free foreign ATM
- >use (even if only a few times per month) that (1) are not unreasonably
- >expensive in other ways (e.g. high fee, high balance requirement), and
- >(2) are reasonably accessible to most people? The $3000 balance requirement
- >for the bank named above fails (1), while a credit union named in another
- >article fails (2) because most people cannot use it.
-
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Timothy J. Lee timlee@netcom.com
- >No warranty of any kind is provided with this message.
-
- In Baltimore, MD there is a bank [Maryland National] that offers account for
- full time college students: no minumum balance, free ATM use (I think for a
- small first time fee?) free checking (with savings account no min balance)
- no interest to checking account
-
- Erick
- --
- singley@clinpharm.niaaa.nih.gov
-