PNC is offering a $100 welcome bonus to new PNC Core® cardholders. To earn the bonus, you'll need to make $1,000 worth of purchases within 3 statement cycles.
This is in addition to the introductory 0% APR on purchases and balance transfers for the first 15 months.
How To Earn The Bonus
The PNC Core® Visa® Credit Card promotion requires you to make purchases using the account's card in order to earn the $100 bonus.
Full requirements to receive this bonus are:
- Apply for a new PNC Core® credit card using the link below.
- Within 3 months, spend $1,000 using your new card.
- Bonus will be credited within 90 days in the form of a statement credit.
The fine print
- The term "purchases" does not mean every transaction you make with your credit card. Some limited transactions, such as cash advances (which include the purchase of cash equivalent products) and balance transfers are excluded.
- Offer only available when applying through the links provided on the bonus page (linked above).
How does this Personal Card from PNC compare?
To help you determine how this bonus stacks against the rest, here are some of the most popular offers available right now:
Amex
American Express® Gold Card
- Bonus
- 60,000 Points
- Account Type
- Personal Card
- Annual Fee
- $250
Amex
Blue Cash Preferred® Card from American Express
- Bonus
- $250
- Account Type
- Personal Card
- Annual Fee
- $0 intro annual fee for the first year, then $95.
Citi®
Citi Premier® Card
- Bonus
- 60,000 Points
- Account Type
- Personal Card
- Annual Fee
- $95
Why PNC Bank?
PNC Bank is the 7th largest in the U.S., with over 60,000 ATMs and approximately 2,400 physical branches across the country. This includes the former BBVA locations, which they acquired in 2021.
PNC offers "Spend, Reserve and Growth" virtual wallets. Spend is for day-to-day activity, Reserve is for short term planning, and Growth is a long term savings account. A single fee covers the trio of accounts and, like most linked accounts, it's easy to transfer money between the three (plus offers 2-layers of fee-free overdraft protection).
Ultimately, however, PNC isn't our top pick if you're shopping for a new bank. Typical of the big national brands, their interest rates are low in some markets. And while they offer online and mobile banking with all of the major features, their apps feel more dated than competitor products (and definitely more than the tech-based banks).
Learn more in our PNC Bank review
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