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Best Current First Year Fee Waived Cards for January 2020

ByMatt January 25, 2020September 20, 2023

For this month, all BMO offers ended last month, but all ended up being extended until May. So if you missed out, you have another opportunity to sign up for those cards.

The card that I would pay close attention to is the Scotia Momentum Visa Infinite Card, which relaunched its 10% cash back (first the first 3 months up to $2,000 in spending) and first year fee waived promotion. Historically, this has been the best offer with this card.

Otherwise, for the rest of the list, all offers run until at least early March 2020.

Top Cash Back Credit Card Offers for January 2020

ByMatt January 15, 2020September 20, 2023

A new year means we should expect some new offers. But for now, most offers are rolling over or extended (namely National Bank) from 2019. Most offers are expiring at the end of March.

Note that this post focuses on temporary offers. Our Top Cash Back Credit Cards page continues to list current offers that are not exclusive to limited time offers like this post.

Highlights

The biggest change to the list is the Scotia Momentum Visa Infinite Card coming back with its 10% cash back welcome offer, along with the first year fee waived. The TD Cash Back Visa Infinite Card extended its matching introductory offer, but has a weaker normal earning ratio than the Scotia Momentum Visa Infinite Card.

American Express (AMEX) | Bank of Montreal (BMO) | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) | Scotiabank | Toronto Dominion (TD)

Top Credit Card Higher than Normal Sign Up Bonuses for January 2020

ByMatt January 5, 2020September 20, 2023

It’s already 2020! You will notice that most offers are rolling over from 2019, but at many are expiring sometime this month. The rest are expiring in March for the most part. So if you are thinking about certain cards, you will want to jump on them sooner rather than later before it expires. I expect new offers to come up by next month’s list, but if you are considering current offers, now is the time.

Top Higher than Normal Sign Up Bonuses for January 2020

My 2020 Predictions for the Miles and Points World

ByMatt January 2, 2020December 15, 2021

Back in 2016, I began a new tradition of trying to predict the travel / rewards market in Canada. The first year was rough, but it got better over the years. How did it go this year though?

Below are my previous scores:

Bank of Montreal (BMO) | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) | Meridian | Scotiabank | Toronto Dominion (TD)

Best Current First Year Fee Waived Cards for December 2019

ByMatt December 24, 2019September 20, 2023

The most significant change this month is that all the TD offers expired from last month’s list, but they have new offers in place now. The one card that you might want to give a deeper look at is the Scotia Momentum Visa Infinite Card which is currently waiving its first year annual fee. This offer is coming to an end in a few days.

Top Credit Card Higher than Normal Sign Up Bonuses for December 2019

ByMatt December 5, 2019September 20, 2023

Most offers this month started in November, since many promotions ended in October. So the majority of this list is carry-over from last month and end sometime in 2020 (GASP! Already almost the new year). For the most part, it was TD that ended their offers and created some new ones that run for the next few months.

Top Higher than Normal Sign Up Bonuses for December 2019

Best Current First Year Fee Waived Cards for November 2019

ByMatt November 25, 2019September 20, 2023

Quite a few offers ended last month, but most offers got extended for this month. Ongoing Offers The reason I left this list (ongoing offers) up is that there are so few (just 2 really) permanent first year fee waived…

Top Credit Card Higher than Normal Sign Up Bonuses for November 2019

ByMatt November 5, 2019September 20, 2023

Quite a few promotions ended at the end of October, but most promotions either got extended or repurposed.

Top Higher than Normal Sign Up Bonuses for November 2019

For the rest of the credit cards, I ranked the credit cards by the price of the annual fees (lowest to highest):

Top No Annual Fee Canadian Credit Cards

ByMatt October 29, 2019September 20, 2023

You may have noticed by now that we added a new page to our menu bar due to popular demand. Under Top Credit Cards, you will find Top No Annual Fee cards. You will probably notice that most of the listed cards are sprinkled between all the other categories. But now we have all of them in one page. Out of all the lists that we have, this might be the longest one.

Bank of Montreal (BMO) | Meridian | Scotiabank | Toronto Dominion (TD)

Best Current First Year Fee Waived Cards for October 2019

ByMatt October 25, 2019September 20, 2023

Quite a few offers are ending at month end, so if you are still thinking about it, now is your last chance to jump on the current offers. I am excited to see what is going to be offered in November. I expect some offers to be extended, but others to surface. If not, this list could be real short next month.

Ongoing Offers

The reason I left this list (ongoing offers) up is that there are so few (just 2 really) permanent first year fee waived offers. So they are worthy of being highlighted. Meridian Bank is the only company willing to do this at the moment. Granted, the terms and conditions do say that the offers are limited time, but with no specific end date.