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> If you put $250,000 in an SIPC-protected brokerage account, that account holds both cash and securities

So I won't buy any securities, just use it as a checking account, keeping the cash sitting there earning the 3% interest.

I wonder if there is a rule of Robinhood which prevents me doing this.



It looks like the checking and savings accounts are brokerage accounts, so if you put money into it then you are buying securities.

I just learned that this is how Betterment's "Smart Saver" account is as well.

> Is Robinhood a bank?

No. Robinhood offers Checking & Savings through a brokerage account and it offers the Robinhood debit card in partnership with Sutton Bank.


SIPC protects cash in brokerage accounts too.




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