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CIT Bank 11 Month No-Penalty CD: Earn Expired

4.90% APY*
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CIT Bank, our partner, offers the following benefits with their No-Penalty CD.

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  • $1,000 minimum to open
  • No penalty to access funds if needed before maturity
  • No opening or maintenance fees
  • Daily compounding interest to maximize your earning potential
  • Member FDIC
  • *See site for details
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CIT Bank, our partner, offers the following benefits with their No-Penalty CD.
  • $1,000 minimum to open
  • No penalty to access funds if needed before maturity
  • No opening or maintenance fees
  • Daily compounding interest to maximize your earning potential
  • Member FDIC
  • *See site for details
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CIT is a subsidy of First Citizen Bank.
Awful , awful reviews

https://wallethub.com/profile/fir...-13003328i
We've been with Ally for 10 years and never had a single complaint about them. Customer service is available 24/7 and everyone speaks intelligible English.
Just buy them directly from Treasury. The Treasury Direct website won't win any awards for user friendliness, but it's not difficult to set up an account, the search function is very good for finding answers and it's a full service website. And of course there are a zillion resources available on the Internet.

I spoke to Fidelity about buying T-bills or bonds through them and my recollection is that there are two ways to do it, one involves fees and one doesn't. I figured for the same effort it would take to fully understand the difference, I could probably figure out the Treasury Direct site and I was correct about that.

The idea is to balance risk and get a better return than what my bank offer. UST Direct accomplish that with one stop shopping. You get a better rate and don't have to spend ungodly amounts of time chasing rates at unknown banks all over the country.

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spartanerik
05-14-2023 at 06:34 AM.
05-14-2023 at 06:34 AM.
Quote from desidealmaster :
We just sold our house earlier this week and have a big chunk of cash from proceeds sitting in my Alliant CU account, earning only 3.1%. We're looking for a new house in a more expensive area that we're moving to so I do need the money to be readily available for down-payment on the new house when we find it.

In the meantime, I want my money to work harder than making 3.1% So, this week I have been looking for opportunities to put this money in another liquid-ish account to 1/ earn better interest and 2/ distribute money so I'm under $250K FDIC guarantee in each bank.

Is this the best opportunity in my case? Are you aware of any other account to park $250K in? I will prob need to open a few accounts to distribute the money I have in cash right now.

Check out Wealthfront, they're doing 4.55 APY with another 0.5 APY for 3 months with referral code, for a total of 5.05. FDIC insured, split among many banks. Probably the highest coverage you'll need. Can shoot you a referral if you want.

I use them strictly for the cash account APY, I haven't spent a penny in fees or in using their investment platform. Moved money back and forth from Chase with no issues.

Used them for years, they are very quick to up their APY with the federal reserve. I remember when their 2.8 APY was amazing years ago compared to Chase's 0.01

https://www.wealthfront.com/cash-...pant-banks
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dbcmeplease
05-14-2023 at 06:43 AM.
05-14-2023 at 06:43 AM.
Quote from nickpaji123 :
I have few cit bank no penalty 4.8%. Now they have 4.9% no penalty cd. Can I change my 4.8% no penalty cd to 4.9% no penalty cd. Can they transfer the balance from one cd to another cd ?

Super easy on app. Just click on "open new account". Follow the process. Except during the finding source page click on "existing CIT account". It will have a drop down of your accounts. Choose existing CIT account you want to fund from. It will then close that account - paying accrued interest, and open the new one
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antfreebee
05-14-2023 at 07:41 AM.
05-14-2023 at 07:41 AM.
Just trying to think this through… If t-bills are around 4-5% for around the same duration, would it be more advantageous to go that route as opposed to CDs? T-bills are government backed and are not subject to local and state incomes taxes. Is that right? Or am I missing something?
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JeffreyJ9825
05-14-2023 at 10:50 AM.
05-14-2023 at 10:50 AM.
I had CIT, the moment you transfer the balance out below some threshold, they wanted to penalize me $x/mo. I was forced to close this dumb account, no other online banks do this.

update: I got it mixed up with CIBC. I have CIT as well and it is okay banking them.
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psychojinx
05-14-2023 at 11:18 AM.
05-14-2023 at 11:18 AM.
Quote from JeffreyJ9825 :
I had CIT, the moment you transfer the balance out below some threshold, they wanted to penalize me $x/mo. I was forced to close this dumb account, no other online banks do this.
Certainly you are not talking about a CIT CD account. What type of account with CIT did you have?

I have a Money Market Checking Account with CIT that I originally funded with $100, then about 2 months later, withdrew virtually all of the amount via an ACH transfer to an external linked bank (I left $0.06 in my CIT account). I have not been charged any fees or penalties ever for anything by CIT. My CIT Money Market Checking Account has just been sitting there for many months with only $0.06 in it and nothing as far as fees or penalties was ever charged.
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BraveMorning116
05-14-2023 at 11:38 AM.
05-14-2023 at 11:38 AM.
Quote from spartanerik :
They're tax free because you buy directly from the Treasury. Look up Treasury direct. Super primitive site, but works
They definitely aren't tax free.
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JeffreyJ9825
05-14-2023 at 01:03 PM.
05-14-2023 at 01:03 PM.
Quote from psychojinx :
Certainly you are not talking about a CIT CD account. What type of account with CIT did you have?

I have a Money Market Checking Account with CIT that I originally funded with $100, then about 2 months later, withdrew virtually all of the amount via an ACH transfer to an external linked bank (I left $0.06 in my CIT account). I have not been charged any fees or penalties ever for anything by CIT. My CIT Money Market Checking Account has just been sitting there for many months with only $0.06 in it and nothing as far as fees or penalties was ever charged.

Actually it's my bad, I'm getting it mixed up with CIBC bank.
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spartanerik
05-14-2023 at 04:48 PM.
05-14-2023 at 04:48 PM.
Quote from BraveMorning116 :
They definitely aren't tax free.
Whoops I should edit, tax free at local and state level***
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mpkb
05-14-2023 at 08:25 PM.
05-14-2023 at 08:25 PM.
Quote from justye :
So what do they mean when they say tax free? Are they referring to state tax?

It literally says this on the gov website:
"Federal tax due on interest earned"
Yeah, they are partially wrong. What you read on .gov is correct, free from state and local taxes. But definitely taxed at the federal level. I wish people would go back and fix their incorrect posts, but whatever Peace
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greatperson
05-14-2023 at 11:45 PM.
05-14-2023 at 11:45 PM.
Only GC holders & Citizens can open an acct with this CIT bank
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arribasn
05-15-2023 at 10:05 AM.
05-15-2023 at 10:05 AM.
check your local credit union, my university CU is offering 5.1% 12 months
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RowdyReptile
05-15-2023 at 10:09 AM.
05-15-2023 at 10:09 AM.
Quote from chris58950 :
Why lock into this CD, when you could go with VioBank and the rate keeps floating up. Go with the Cornerstone Savings 4.85% and your money is always liquid. Money is FDIC and the rate floats up every time the fed raises rates.

https://www.viobank.com/
It's a bit of a bet. While rates are floating up, there's no need. But rates can also sink down at any time. If you think we may be at a peak, and you want to lock in a high interest rate, then buy a CD (or T-bill perhaps). If this is no-penalty to remove your money, then you can always transfer it into another account or CD if rates keep rising, so there's little downside to your gamble.

I had a CIT savings account a few years back, and the interest rate kept dropping. I felt bait-and-switched. I know that could happen anywhere, but I'd personally look for another bank first.
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itsme_here07
05-15-2023 at 10:20 AM.
05-15-2023 at 10:20 AM.
Quote from djangi :
CIT has by far the worst app. Looks like some entry level sw engineers developed the gui. Fingerprint never works. Ally app is much much better.
agree. The CTI and Vio bank mobile app looks like a replica with a color change. Their web interface is better. I like Ally bank app. It is nowhere comparable with Vio or CTI. Ally is way better
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noobcake
05-15-2023 at 10:34 AM.

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05-15-2023 at 10:34 AM.
Quote from gcretro :
But being mutual funds, there is no guarantee on the yield unlike say a 12 mo CD right? or am I missing something
They are money market disguised under the umbrella of mutual fund. The interest rate will track the interest rate environment. SWVXX has a 'Weighted Average Life' of 42 days, meaning the interest rate will pretty much lag the overall treasury bills rate by 6 weeks. 12 mo CD will lock in a rate. SWVXX will adjust effectively daily.

CD - zero to low liquidity, fixed rate, protected against loss under 250k, banks usually take a big cut (5.57% at last auction), CIT yields 4.90% fixed

Money Market - high liquidity (takes 2 days to sell and settle), in theory could lose principal balance, but effectively impossible, rate changes with time, SWVXX yielding today: 4.90%

Treasury ETF - high liquidity (takes 2 days to sell and settle), absolutely can lose principal, and very likely to lose principal with interest rate going forward, but the amount of loss is going to be small* with weighted to maturity of 0.9 years or ~320 days, TFLO yielding today: 5.13%
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dualityofman
05-15-2023 at 10:44 AM.
05-15-2023 at 10:44 AM.
Quote from skeleton516 :
Anyone know?

Since CIT seems to only posts the interest at the end of each month... what will happen to the 10 days of interest say if i take my money out today on 05/10 ?

Do we lose the 10 days? or will it get credited?

Should be prorated, but I'd like to know do we still earn interest during the transfer period which can take up to 10 days.
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