If you’ve been denied a checking account due to past banking issues, opening a second chance checking account may be your ticket to accessing banking services and rebuilding your banking history.

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If you’ve previously applied for a checking account and were denied, chances are the bank used a consumer reporting agency called ChexSystems to review your banking profile and saw a history of ...