SoFi Promos: 2% ACAT Transfer Bonus, $425 New Checking Bonus, $300-$1000 Loan Bonuses

(Updated: 2% ACAT transfer bonus is back, valid on both IRAs and taxable brokerage accounts. For example, $2,000 on a $100,000 account value. 5-year minimum hold. Only a 1% bonus on 401k rollovers. )

SoFi (“Social Finance”) is an all-in-one finance app that expanded from students loans into banking, stocks, crypto, credit cards, and more. They often run a bunch of different promotional offers; New users can receive a separate opening bonus for each separate part of SoFi (Money, Invest, Loans, etc).

  • SoFi Checking Referral Offer: Up to $425 new account bonus. Open a new SoFi Checking account and add at least $50 to your account within 21 days, and get $25. Then get up to $400 additional bonus with qualifying direct deposit. Plus up to 4.00% APY for 6 months.
  • SoFi Credit Score Monitoring Offer: $10 bonus. Earn $10 in rewards points when you activate free credit score monitoring. Also get a few free points when your score rises.
  • SoFi Invest Referral Offer: $25 new account bonus. Taxable brokerage account. Open an Active Investing account with $25 or more, and you’ll get $25 in stock.
  • SoFi Crypto Referral Offer: $25 new account bonus. Open a new SoFi Crypto account (you’ll need a SoFi Checking and Savings account), make a single qualifying purchase of at least $50 within 30 days, and get a $25 bonus.
  • SoFi ACAT Transfer Offer: 2% Match Bonus. Get a 2% match on ACAT transfers to IRA or taxable brokerage accounts (max $100,000 on $5,000,000 transferred). Minimum hold period for five (5) years from the settlement date.
  • SoFi 401(k) Rollover Offer: 1% Match Bonus. Get a 1% match when you roll over your 401(k) into a SoFi IRA. Minimum hold period for five (5) years from the settlement date.
  • SoFi Student Loan Refi: $300 bonus. Warning: Do your research before refinancing your Federal student loans to a private lender. You may lose some protections.
  • SoFi Doctors and Dentists Student Loan Refi: $1,000 bonus. Special low rates just for doctors and dentists.
  • SoFi Private Student Loan: $300 bonus. For those looking for a new student loan (not a refinance).
  • SoFi Personal Loans Referral Offer: Fixed $300 bonus. Fixed $300 bonus, 90 days after successful funding. The loan has no fees and you can pay it back in full after 90 days (you can pay it down to $50 before then to accrue minimal interest, thus making it an opportunity to make a net profit).

Atmos Rewards Visa Signature Business Card – Improved 85k Offer

The Atmos Rewards Visa Signature Business Card is the business card version of the Atmos Rewards Ascent Visa. Right now, there is also a limited-time increased 85k + $99 Companion Fare offer for this card, which you may find promoted by flight attendants inflight with their code handwritten on the flyer. However, any 7 digit promo code works on the application, and I’ve historically always gotten the bonus with any code.

The highlights are very similar to the consumer card, although the spending requirement is a bit higher. Note that you can now also use your “$99 + fees” Alaska Airlines Companion Fare on Hawaiian Airlines flights within North America, including to/from Hawaii as long as the booking is made on alaskaair.com.

Get 85,000 bonus points and a $99 Companion Fare (plus taxes and fees from $23) after you make $5,500 or more in purchases within the first 90 days of opening your account.

Earn another $99 Companion Fare (plus taxes and fees from $23) each account anniversary after spending $6,000 or more on purchases within the prior anniversary year.

Save with a free checked bag on Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines flights for any cardholder and up to six guests on the same reservation when you pay for your flight with your card.

Enjoy preferred boarding for any cardholder on Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines flights, so you can get to your seat quicker, when paying for the flight with your AtmosTM Rewards Business Card.

Earn 3 points for every $1 spent on eligible Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines purchases, 2 points for every $1 spent on eligible gas, EV charging station, shipping and local transit (including rideshare) purchases, and 1 point per $1 spent on all other purchases.

Earn a 10% rewards bonus on all points earned from card purchases if your company has an eligible Bank of America® business banking account.

Atmos Rewards Ascent Visa Review: 85,000 Bonus Points + $99 Companion Fare

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A Cautionary Tale about Maintaining Paper/Offline Records of your Accounts

The NY Times recently published the article "Her Life Savings Mysteriously Disappeared After a Systems Glitch" (gift link), where a woman logs into her Fidelity account one day and finds that her accounts are missing online and Fidelity dismisses her … [Read the rest]

Barclays Select Savings w/ AARP: $400 Bonus on $40,000 Deposit (+4% APY)

Barclays Bank Delaware has a Select Savings account (currently at 4.00% APY on all balance tiers) as part of their "AARP® Digital Banking" package which also offers Select CDS (with currently subpar rates) that is only available to AARP members with … [Read the rest]

Vanguard To Add Morningstar Branding to Several Index Funds

Last month, I mentioned that Morningstar had bought the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) from the University of Chicago. CRSP started out as a non-profit, but was later converted to an LLC and sold for $375 million. Vanguard used … [Read the rest]

2026 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting Video, Transcript, and Notes

The 2026 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting occurred on May 2nd, 2026. Here is the full 5-hour meeting (pseudo-transcript) and a 7-minute highlight reel from CNBC from Omaha. This is the first one where Warren Buffett was not on stage … [Read the rest]

Ally Invest: $200 Bonus for New Brokerage Account

Ally Invest has a new $200 bonus offer for opening a new brokerage account with them, however it is specifically targeted to existing Ally Bank and Ally Auto customers who have never had an Ally Invest account before. (Some of us may have Ally … [Read the rest]

Ally Bank $100 New Savings Account Referral Bonus (No Direct Deposit Requirement)

Bonus extended. Ally Bank is one of my favorite banks in terms of user interface, practical features, customer service, and reliability. They were my primary checking account for years (the checking can auto-draft from the savings). Unfortunately, … [Read the rest]

Savings I Bonds May 2026 Rate: 0.9% Fixed Rate, 4.26% Total Rate for 6 Months

May 2026 update: Savings I Bonds bought from May 1, 2026 to October 31, 2026 will have a fixed rate of 0.90% and inflation rate of 3.36%, for a total composite rate of 4.26% for the first 6 months. For comparison, the current Treasury yields are … [Read the rest]

Chase Sapphire Reserve Card: 150,000 Points Bonus (New Limited-Time Offer)

Improved 150k offer. The revamped Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card is now offering a 150,000 Ultimate Rewards points bonus. This card stacks a high annual fee with a long list of perks. I don't know about $6,000, but we are definitely talking an … [Read the rest]

Rakuten Shopping Portal: New Bonus for Bank of America Credit Cards

Shopping cashback portal Rakuten is offering an additional bonus on select Bank of America credit cards. The values may fluctuate as with all their payout rates, but currently I am seeing the following: $250 cash back on the BofA Travel … [Read the rest]