M&T Bank Corporation Bank Account Or Service Complaint

Checking account Problems caused by my funds being low

M&T Bank Corporation Bank account or service department,

Checking account Problems caused by my funds being low Pennsylvania

I have multiple checking accounts with M & T bank and have had accounts there since I first opened an account with a local bank as a child. The bank was bought several times and has been M & T for many years at this point. I am aware that they have an excessive fee structure, so I take painstaking steps to avoid any kind of possible fees including keeping the bulk of my funds in credit unions and online accounts such as - - in order to avoid their extensive ATM fees and lousy savings account interest rates. I have even opened up lines of credit for almost every checking account I have with them in order to avoid overdraft fees. I basically only deposit enough money in my M & T account to pay my monthly bills via web bill pay and checks. Their web bill pay is the only financial service of value to me. Their rates and service for loans, credit cards, etc are so poor that I never even consider them when shopping for other financial products such as a vehicle loan.


constantly via - so, seeing the transfer, I logged on the following day and transferred some money from - of my other accounts ( I had over $1000.00 on deposit with the institution at the time ) and then transferred the $1.00 back to the line. For the service of providing me the $1.00 for less than - hrs, they decided to charge me $12.00. I work next to an M & T and have a great relationship with the manager, but as I 've learned from previous experience, the branches have no control over fees associated with the automated system, so I figured I would just call their customer service line and discuss this with someone there since they have effectively removed customer service from the branches. I discussed the situation with the customer service person who also had no ability to do anything at all. I understand the policy, I know what the fee is, and honestly I would care less about paying $12.00 if they had to advance even $50.00 on my behalf. But to have no money at all of their own at risk and to charge 833 % percent does not seem at all reasonable. I know it is within their rights per the agreement of use or whatever miscellaneous fine print I had to agree to in order to use web banking, overdraft lines of credit etc, but this is extremely usurious and many of their clients do n't have the means to absorb these kinds of fees routinely. If I could find an institution with equal web banking capabilities, I would close all of my accounts tomorrow.

M&T Bank Corporation customer in Pennsylvania
May 25, 2016

* Source: CFPB Complaint Database

M&T Bank Corporation response to complaint:
Closed with explanation

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