Here’s your opportunity to earn a $100 bonus exclusively from The Money Ninja when you open a new UFB Secure Savings account. This high-yield savings account features an exceptional rate of 5.25% APY for any balance, and has no minimum balance requirement or monthly service fees to worry about.
Full details of this exclusive promotion below.
For more current bank offers, see our bank bonuses page. The most popular offers are from Chase Bank, SoFi, U.S. Bank, and Axos Bank.
Promotion Status: As of 12/6/23 @ 4:00 pm EST, the offer is still ACTIVE.
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Exclusive $100 UFB Savings Account Bonus
As we’re all spending money during the holidays, I wanted to reward people for saving money too. So, I’m excited to announce that The Money Ninja has partnered with UFB Direct, a division of Axos Bank, to offer you an exclusive bonus.
You’ll receive $100 when you open a UFB Secure Savings account and fund it with a total of $5,000 or more within the first 21 days of account opening. This new offer starts December 1, 2023 and is limited to the first 100 readers who opens and funds their accounts.
To take advantage of this nationwide offer, add your email address to the end of the link below and use the full link to open the UFB savings account:
- https://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=BumCwM6Bi5I&offerid=1298838.170&type=3&subid=0&u1=
For example, if your email address is johndoe@gmail.com, you would copy and paste the following link to your web browser to open an account:
- https://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=BumCwM6Bi5I&offerid=1298838.170&type=3&subid=0&u1=johndoe@gmail.com
Once opened, deposit at least $5,000 within 21 days of account opening, and we’ll send a $100 Visa gift card to your email address within 60 days of meeting that requirement.
We will only use your email address to track the account opening and funding status, and to send you the Visa gift card electronically. TheMoneyNinja.com won’t have any other information about you or your account beyond this.
Step-by-Step Directions to Earn the $100 Bonus:
- Append your email address at the end of the following sign-up link: https://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=BumCwM6Bi5I&offerid=1298838.170&type=3&subid=0&u1=
- Copy and paste the link that now includes your email address to a web browser and open a new UFB Secure Savings account.
- Deposit a total of at least $5,000 within 21 days of account opening.
- Receive an exclusive TheMoneyNinja.com reward within 60 days of meeting all requirements, in the form of a digital $100 Visa gift card.
The Visa gift card will be sent to your email address within 60 days of completing the offer, so please ensure that you have typed it in correctly. There will be no emails from us outside of sending the gift card. If there are any issues, please email us after the 60-day eligibility window.
Offer Details
Availability: Nationwide
Promotion Status: Active
Expiration: N/A
Household Limit: None
Direct Deposit Required: No
Deposit Required: $5,000 (for accounts opened after 11/31/23 11:59PM EST)
Early Account Termination Fee: None, but bonus forfeited if account closed within 45 days of account opening
Offer Terms & Conditions (my lawyer made me do this):
- Exclusive offer distributed by TheMoneyNinja.com, not by UFB Direct. All questions regarding reward redemption should be directed to support@themoneyninja.com.
- Closing the account within 45 days will forfeit the bonus.
- Bonus will be sent to the tracked email address within 60 days of completing offer requirements.
- Must enroll in the offer by opening a UFB Secure Savings account directly through the offer link with your email appended at the end of the link. If you open your account by any other means, you will not be eligible to earn this exclusive offer.
- Offer only valid to new UFB customers.
- New customer must be approved by UFB Direct and the account must be funded with $5,000 or more to qualify. Accounts rejected by UFB Direct or not funded within 21 days will not be eligible for the offer.
- Offer is only valid once per user.
- TheMoneyNinja.com reserves the right to end the offer at any time and to, in its sole discretion, determine eligibility for this offer.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
The $100 bonus offer is from TheMoneyNinja.com, it’s not reflected on the UFB Direct website. As long as you open your new account with the instruction provided in this post, then yes, you’re in the right place!
There’s a text field on the UFB Direct application that allows you to enter a code, which can lead to some confusion. However, because the $100 is paid by TheMoneyNinja.com, no code needs to be entered.
Instead, follow the instructions in this post to create a link to open your new account and you’ll be automatically enrolled in the bonus offer.
Besides your email address and funding status to track your eligibility, TheMoneyNinja.com will not receive any other personal information about you.
Any personal information you share during account opening will be directly with UFB Direct, a division of Axos Bank. UFB Direct will verify to us that you’ve completed the steps to qualify for the bonus and nothing more.
If you complete all the offer requirements, which means that you’ve opened a new UFB Secure Savings account and funded the account with $5,000 or more within 21 days of account opening, then you’ll receive the $100 bonus via the email address that you provided in creating your sign-up link within 60 days.
Please be aware that closing the account within 45 days of account opening will forfeit the bonus.
Yes. While UFB Direct is a division of Axos Bank, opening a brand new UFB Secure Savings account will still qualify you for this bonus.
As a current Axos Bank customer, their website may direct you to the Axos login to streamline your process, but as long as your new UFB Direct account is approved, funded, and remains open for at least 45 days, you’ll receive the $100 bonus offer.
The Bottom Line
UFB Direct has consistently ranked at or near the top among banks that offer savings accounts with the highest yields. It’s one of the savings accounts I personally use to save money.
You can learn more about this account and my first-hand experience as a customer in this review. it’s a solid bank that I’ve been very happy to bank with, but it does have a couple of minor quirks: funds take a little longer to clear, and you need to occasionally chase rates when they update.
For full disclosure, although we have an affiliate relationship with Axos Bank/UFB Direct, they are not paying us anything extra to promote this. We are giving a significant part of our commissions back to our readers as a holiday thank you for your continued support.
While there were other sites that offered something similar in the past, to my knowledge, this is currently the only account opening bonus available for a UFB Direct Savings account.
H John,
3 family members are interested in bonus but wonder if the 1st 100 cut off is reached.
Do you have open spots?
Thanks for your reply!
The bonus for this month just started yesterday (December 1st) so you’re good to go! I’ll announce at the top of this page when it’s completed.
If I put money into the new account and reached $5000 early, and then start spending some money from this account, so that on the 21th day of account opening my balance is less than $5000, do I still qualify for the bonus? Please clarify.
BTW in the FAQ section you wrote 10 days instead which should be corrected.
Hi Victor, we get very limited information from Axos Bank/UFB Direct for privacy reasons. To err on the safe side, I’d keep at least $5,000 by Day 21. After that, you can spend whatever amount you’d like as long as your account remains open for 45 days.
Thanks for pointing that out in FAQ – it’s been corrected!
Does this start EST or local time?
Hey Greg! I will update the page when it’s live. New in December is a relatively small minimum deposit requirement to discourage some people from just depositing a nominal amount of money to receive the bonus.
I love giving out bonuses, but the point is to encourage people to save and encourage Axos Bank to keep this promotion ongoing.
Edit: It’s now live! Minimum funding amount is $5,000.
John, I noticed they have a money market account at 5.25% interest too. Do you know if it’s possible to use the money market account as a primary checking account similar to a Fidelity CMA?
UFB’s Money Market offers the same rate as the Savings account, but it requires a $5,000 minimum balance to waive the $10 monthly fee (the savings account has no monthly service fees). But, it does have the ability to write checks. I actually like the Fidelity Cash Management Account a lot more. Fidelity’s debit card provides ATM fee reimbursements for machines that assess one. If you travel internationally, they use actual exchange rates without a mark-up. This is not to say UFB’s MMA is bad, but checking accounts like the Fidelity one you mentioned is better.
Long overdue data point for those who are participating in the current promotion:
8/14/23: Applied for a UFB Savings account late in the evening.
8/15/23: Received email that my account has been approved.
8/15/23: Pushed a transfer from my Bank of America checking account to my new UFB Savings account.
8/18/23: Deposit cleared at UFB.
10/6/23: Received email from TMN with a link to redeem $100 Visa GC.
I’m happy with how it worked out and the rates have been adjusted once already to remain at the top of the rates chart.
It’s been a week and the transfer is still pending. This is not a bank for those who need to move money around quickly lol
Hi John,
I just want to ensure that i was included with the 100$ signup.
I created the application before the cutoff and the account was funded today.
Thanks
I see you in the system, Derek. Anyone who applied before the cutoff date is automatically eligible.
Awesome, thanks John.
Bizarre it doesn’t even reflect the transfers anywhere after you initiate them, or at least it didn’t for me.
Hello John, are you able to see my email in the system/will I be eligible for the offer?
Thank you!
Yes, you’re in the system!
Thank you!
I had this page on my tab opened since yesterday and I was trying to sign up but it was having issues. I found out I just had to clear my cookies. I applied and refreshed this page and just saw the cutoff time. I just signed up about 30 mins after the cutoff time.
Would I still be eligible?
Hi Eric, I’ll make a one-time exception due to your circumstance 🙂
Thank you! Much appreciated!
When will I get the bonus? I already funded the account
He says it right in the post: “Receive an exclusive TheMoneyNinja.com reward within 60 days of meeting all requirements, in the form of a digital $100 Visa gift card.”
I’m in, deposit in process of transferring.
I applied just a few minutes ago – am I one of the first 100 applicants?
Yes, I will update this post when the limit has been reached.
Great, thank you!
OK so a wire transfer is immediate and so is a ATM withdraw. So relax
I just signed up, thanks. 5 biz days for deposit to process is rough.
Up to 5 business days to clear funds is definitely on the longer side. I know they’re trying to reduce that to a more “standard” 2-3 business days. I use the account as a purely save and hold account for my long-term savings and not something I would need access to immediately.