Automatic Transfer Service - ATS

  

Categories: Banking, Regulations

This is overdraft protection. It represents a deposit account that allows the transfer of funds from the savings to the checking. This covers a check or allows you to maintain a minimum balance.

Fundamentally, this combines your checking and savings during times of troubles. Try not to drain that bank account!!! That's why we keep our savings at a different bank...

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