Looking for high-yield savings account to keep my emergency funds. Singlife offers a good interest rate of 2.5% but unsure about its liquidity. Any recommendations/thoughts based on your experience?

I have been using Singlife for awhile now. Liquidity has been great so far. Most of the time, the withdrawal takes just seconds but sometimes there will be some error and this takes a few minutes and at most up to 15 mins before i can transfer money.

Liquidity looks pretty good so far, I just tried a transfer out of the account and it was in my spending account (DBS) within a matter of minutes. If you won't need it for URGENT use, I think it's a great palce to store your emergnecy funds, and let it do some extra work for you.

On top of that the account comes with a debit card you can use for payments if really neccessary, but other than 0 forex fees the debit card doesn't come with much other perks, so I wouldn't use it as my main card.

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Hi Anon,

I don't quite like SingLife's liquidity. On the app, it says that it can take up to 3 hours for the money to be transferred to the account, though most of the time it has been transferred within 10-15mins. I'm not willing to take the risk of placing all of my emergency funds in SingLife, as I could encounter an emergency that requires the cash upfront.

This is why I would prefer to leave some of my emergency fund in a savings account. With FAST transfers and being able to withdraw from the ATM, a savings account is the best place to put your emergency fund, although the interest rate is quite low.

I'm using a combination of both the JumpStart account and SingLife for my emergency funds.

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Withdraw anytime, it works like a DBS Paylah (wallet) with embedded insurance. However, it still has a poor interface with some errors, but it shouldn't be much of a problem.