Monthly fee

$18

−$216 a year for an everyday customer: fees and interest, $2,000 kept.

Regions Bank · Checking account

Regions LifeGreen Preferred Checking®

−$216 a year for an everyday customer. $18 a month. $25 to open.

Checked Nov 8, 2026Updated

A year, everyday customer
−$216
Monthly fee
To open

Offer

Bonus

$50

With a current customer’s referral

Refer a friend

Complete registration using the email received and agree to program rules. Open a new Regions personal checking account within 90 days of receiving the initial referral email or social media communication. Within 60 days of opening the acco

Against the market

How it ranks

#945of 1043 checking accounts, by a year’s value for an everyday customer

All 1043 checking accounts, ranked

Features

  • Bill pay
  • Budgeting tools
  • Check writing
  • Debit card
  • Debit rewards
  • Early direct deposit
  • Interest bearing
  • Mobile check deposit
  • Online opening
  • Overdraft grace period
  • Overdraft protection transfer
  • Zelle

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

Fees

Monthly fee
$18 a monthregions.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
Ways to avoid the monthly fee
Any one of these:
  • Maintain a $5,000 average monthly statement balance in your LifeGreen Preferred Checking® account
  • Have $25,000 in combined minimum deposit balances from all your Regions checking, savings, money markets, CDs and IRAs
  • Have $25,000 in combined minimum outstanding loan balances from your Regions personal installment loans, lines of credit, equity lines of credit, equity loans, direct loans and credit cards in good standing.
  • Have certain qualifying first-lien home mortgage loans in any amount in good standing
regions.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
Minimum to open
$25regions.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
Overdraft fee
$36regions.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
Overdraft transfer fee
Noneregions.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
Paper statements
Noneregions.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
Cashier’s check
Noneregions.com, checked Nov 8, 2026

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

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