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While there are several reasons a bank may close your account, you can take steps to ensure you have an account available.

ChexSystems tracks negative banking history for up to five years and is used by over 90% of U.S. banks and credit unions to screen new accounts. You can get a free ChexSystems report annually and ...

We know they’re out there. Banks that don’t use ChexSystems don’t make a secret of their second chance banking. To clarify the verb “use” here, we’re not saying that this 20% of banks in the US is ...