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Got rejected when trying to open checking account with a credit union?

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Re: Got rejected when trying to open checking account with a credit union?


@Anonymous wrote:
So I tried to open a high interest checking account with Alliant just s moment ago and was rejected. It says it’ll mail me a letter in 7-10 days. But I’m curious as to why. My credit is around 530-540 because I’m only 19 and have no credit history (a reason why I wanted to build relationship with a CU) I have no fraudulent record on file or anything like that. Only negative is that someone else that I know opened a checking account at my local credit union using my name, and I agreed. And they owed $2500 on it and never paid back so that was a huge negative record on my file. BUT, I just looked up my credit report yesterday and it actually says that this negative inquiry has expired because it’s been a couple of years and that any third party would not be able to see I even had this record at all, and right now there shows 0 negative credit history on my credit report. So how am I still getting rejected? I don’t understand. This makes me mad because I wasn’t even the one that owed the money and now I can’t even open a checking account with a CU because of a negative inquiry that has already DISAPPEARED? Or so as they SAID on the credit report. I’m not about to pay that money off anytime soon. It’s so strange. What the heck is going on?
Only reason I can think of is that I have no idea when the negative inquiry expires, it might be very recent so maybe my credit report hasn’t been updated to third parties?

 

Where are you getting your credit scores and credit report from?  

 

There is absolutely no way that someone new to credit would have a 530-540 score; such a score suggests that you have at least one major derogatory on your credit file.  And this is separate and apart from whatever record Chex Systems has on your banking history.  Did the "friend" also open a credit card?

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Thomas_Thumb
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Re: Got rejected when trying to open checking account with a credit union?


@Anonymous wrote:
You're probably denied for Chexsystems which records negative deposit account history.

Agreed - That the denial is likely associated with Chexsystems score. These denials often relate to recent and/or frequent address changes or recent new credit. As asked up thread - where are the OP's scores from?

 

Pasted below is an excerpt from a non Fico blog that may be of interest to the OP.

 

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As illustrated in the table below, ChexSystems provides certain “cutoff” segments from which banks can choose based on the level of risk they’re willing to tolerate. Each bank can decide for itself which specific segments and scores correspond with account approval and rejection. If a bank wants to tolerate a moderate amount of risk, for instance, it will approve applicants with a ChexSystems score of 545 or higher and either reject or at least consider applicants with a lower score. [from - https://wallethub.com/edu/chexsystems-score/13318/#mehrsa-baradaran]

 

Risk Level

Cutoff Score*

Averse

580

Moderate

545

Aggressive

525

*Cutoff scores are effective as of March 1, 2012.

Your ChexSystems score is based on information from the following sources:

  • ChexSystems consumer report
  • Data from the ChexSystems DebitBureau (a database that includes information gathered from banks and from retailers)
  • Employment history
  • Public records data from LexisNexis (e.g., residential history, bankruptcy filings and criminal history)

...

Fico 9: .......EQ 850 TU 850 EX 850
Fico 8: .......EQ 850 TU 850 EX 850
Fico 4 .....:. EQ 809 TU 823 EX 830 EX Fico 98: 842
Fico 8 BC:. EQ 892 TU 900 EX 900
Fico 8 AU:. EQ 887 TU 897 EX 899
Fico 4 BC:. EQ 826 TU 858, EX Fico 98 BC: 870
Fico 4 AU:. EQ 831 TU 872, EX Fico 98 AU: 861
VS 3.0:...... EQ 835 TU 835 EX 835
CBIS: ........EQ LN Auto 940 EQ LN Home 870 TU Auto 902 TU Home 950
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creditfan
Established Contributor

Re: Got rejected when trying to open checking account with a credit union?

I think your best bet is now try to open a prepaid account like serve.com from AMEX. I believe it won't check your credit

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