Monthly fee

$20

−$240 a year for an everyday customer: fees and interest, $2,000 kept.

East West Bank · Checking account

East West Premier Checking

−$240 a year for an everyday customer. $20 a month. $100 to open.

Checked Nov 8, 2026Updated

A year, everyday customer
−$240
Monthly fee
To open

Against the market

How it ranks

#966of 1043 checking accounts, by a year’s value for an everyday customer

All 1043 checking accounts, ranked

Features

  • Bill pay
  • Branch access
  • Check writing
  • Debit card
  • Interest bearing
  • Overdraft protection transfer

From the bank’s own pages. A feature not listed may still be offered: we list only what the bank states.

In the bank’s words

Terms

Rate conditions

Interest compounds
compounded daily/credited monthlyeastwestbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026

Fees

Monthly fee
$20 a montheastwestbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
Ways to avoid the monthly fee
Any one of these:
  • $2,500 monthly average balance
  • $10,000 prior-month end combined average balance in your qualifying East West Bank consumer deposit accounts
eastwestbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
Minimum to open
$100eastwestbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
ATM network
East West Bank ATMs, Allpoint ATMs 1 and MoneyPass ATMs 1eastwestbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026

FDIC-insured, up to $250,000 per depositor, per ownership category: FDIC BankFind.

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