Chanelle Bessette

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NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast · Banking in 2026: Best Banks to Consider and How to Avoid the Worst Fees · 19 Jan 2026 podcast

So when the CFPB loses its resourcing and its ability to enforce regulations, a lot more harm against consumers can happen under the radar.

Usually the CFPB is able to investigate and find financial institutions who are discovered to be committing fraud or taking advantage of customers in some way.

So without as many people to do that work, it's a lot harder for consumers to be protected from those bad actors.

Yeah, so I always recommend that folks do a lot of research into a bank that they're interested in.

Maybe you can read some reviews and poke around on Reddit to see what other people are saying about it.

And if you see a large flux of recent complaints, you might want to avoid opening an account there, at least for the time being.

You can also Google whether that bank has had any previous CFPB settlements or fines, and that should give you a pretty good idea into how they do business.

It's a very involved process.

We look at dozens of different data points for each bank or credit union and reevaluate all kinds of things like interest rates, overdraft policies, minimum deposits, ATM networks.

and customer service options.

So once we have those data points, we're able to really compare how each bank stacks up against another with the black and white numbers.

And that's how we're able to choose the best baking products overall.

Oh, so I think what I'm going to do is share our best savings account, best bank for certificates of deposit and best bank overall.

So our best savings account winner is New Tech Bank.

That's a new T-E-K, which has a really strong interest rate, no fees and strong customer service options.

For CDs, our winner was Marcus by Goldman Sachs, which also has really stellar interest rates.

And for best overall bank, SoFi was our winner.

It's really just a strong option across the board.

SoFi offers high interest rates, a really good overdraft program, and it has a bunch of useful perks like automatic roundups for your savings and a really big ATM network.

Yeah.

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