[arosier]

How does users being able to withdraw their money immediately affect your business model? How are you preventing someone from depositing/withdrawing the same $25 a billion times per week?

[adammoelis]

There is a federal requirement with savings accounts that you can only make 6 withdrawals per month. Right now that has been lifted due to covid, so there is no limit.

If you withdraw, you lose tickets so that is a deterrent to continuing to deposit and withdraw to game the system

[mrjaeger]

Is there a limit to the amount of money you can withdraw at once?

[adammoelis]

Yes. This is for fraud protection reasons. The way ACH works is pretty crazy and is easy to commit fraud with.

Right now it's $2,000 per day. If you want to withdraw more than $2,000 per day, you can upload a driver's license to verify your identity (prevents fraud) and then you can withdraw up to $100,000 per day.

[Jommi]

Its a savings account so you can only withdraw 4-6 times a month.

[adammoelis]

The regulators actually lifted this cap recently, so it's now unlimited most places. But this is temporary from covid.

They wanted people to have more flexible access to their funds given given the macro environment.

[lyrrad]

My understanding is that the Federal Reserve seems to intend the lifting of the cap to be essentially permanent, despite the cap being lifted in the form of an "interim final rule".

See the third question at the Fed FAQ here: https://www.federalreserve.gov/supervisionreg/savings-deposi...

[adammoelis]

Oh cool I did not know that. Thanks for bringing this up

[Jommi]

Super interesting!