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CIT Bank 11 Month No-Penalty CD: Earn Expired

4.90% APY*
-24 Deal Score
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CIT Bank, our partner, offers the following benefits with their No-Penalty CD.

Thanks to community member psychojinx for sharing this deal.
  • $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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acidnynex
06-04-2023 at 02:09 PM.
06-04-2023 at 02:09 PM.
Quote from Protostar :
(I'm new with finance stuff)

Can you explain how you got to this? It looks like you did 100k x 4.9% then divided by 12 months. But is that really how is calculated? If not, what's the best explanation to calculate it?

That's correct, my rough calculation will underestimate by a bit, but demonstrates roughly how much you could make in a month. To do it correctly you'd need to account for the compounding interest. You can find the formula here: https://www.thecalculatorsite.com...st-formula

Or you can just Google "compound interest calculator" to do it easily online.
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acidnynex
06-04-2023 at 02:11 PM.
06-04-2023 at 02:11 PM.
Quote from D3als0nWh33ls :
The comment meant .1% difference would earn a pizza.

On $100k over a year that 0.1% would be ~$105 when compounding daily. I think the biggest benefit here is that you can keep a 4.9% rate if rates go down, or take it out with no penalty and roll it into something else if rates go up.
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sixty4bit
06-05-2023 at 06:03 AM.
06-05-2023 at 06:03 AM.
SDers just let a CD thread go without 25 "but muh t-bills" comments challenge (impossible)
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chaospandemic
06-05-2023 at 12:38 PM.
06-05-2023 at 12:38 PM.
Been with CIT for years, good bank, crappy mobile App
Just closed out my 4.8% no penalty CD and reupped with this. Thanks
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vintagecharms
06-05-2023 at 02:54 PM.
06-05-2023 at 02:54 PM.
Been a member since around 2.9% Left Capital One which won't keep up the rate. Have had no problems depositing or transferring money and they keep raising the rate so I will stay.
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dubmang
06-05-2023 at 04:25 PM.
06-05-2023 at 04:25 PM.
best way to maximize $15k over the next year?
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acidnynex
06-05-2023 at 08:18 PM.
06-05-2023 at 08:18 PM.
Quote from dubmang :
best way to maximize $15k over the next year?
For no risk? This or if you're fine with actually being locked in I think their 6 month CDs are at 5%. Series I savings bonds used to be a better deal but rates have fallen with inflation, so for a no risk investment this is probably your best bet.
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cachorrito
06-06-2023 at 08:33 AM.
06-06-2023 at 08:33 AM.
Quote from CrimsonShoe959 :
Yes, that is what I did. This gives you access to all interest that you have earned for the new CD. If you don't care about the interest you can use an existing CD to fund a new CD. If you go the CD to CD route with CIT I believe you then get the earned interest in your savings account the next business day, or maybe a few business days, but the interest will be trapped outside of the CD you just created, since CDs can only be funded a single time. (This is the explanation I was given by CIT customer service over the phone, I have not done a CD to CD funding personally).

This is not an issue with Ally bank. However, Ally bank has a substantially worse APY at the moment (4.25% vs 4.9%). So you will literally make less money using ally banks better banking UI that offers greater control. If CIT and Ally ever have identical rates, Ally is a much better choice. FWIW I have CDs at both banks.

It's a bit of a pain in the ass, but you can also extend your 11 month no penalty CD duration by closing and reopening the CDs every so often. For example if you have had an 11 month no penalty CD with CIT bank for the last 2 months, you only have 9 months of the rate left. But if you close all of those CDs while they are still offering 4.9%, and then reopen them all, you now have another 11 months. Meaning you will have earned 13 months of the interest guaranteed, vs 11 months if you didn't close and reopen. If you have CDs imo it is worth closing and reopening them all once a month, as long as the rate is still the same or better. Eventually the rate will be worse than what you have secured. By extending it through closing and reopening CDs, granting you extra months, you will make a lot of extra money.
I just flipped my existing 11-month no penalty CD into this one for the additional interest. The funding included all principal in the existing CD and all accrued interest. The final page stated that it may take two business days to fund the account but that interest would start accruing from the time the account opened. It was easy and seamless.
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SubwayRider
06-06-2023 at 01:18 PM.
06-06-2023 at 01:18 PM.
Quote from theundead111 :
Just came back from citizens. 5.5% 10 mo CD with only $50 flat penalty for early withdrawal

Where can I find this Citizens CD?
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CrimsonShoe959
06-06-2023 at 03:58 PM.
06-06-2023 at 03:58 PM.
Quote from cachorrito :
I just flipped my existing 11-month no penalty CD into this one for the additional interest. The funding included all principal in the existing CD and all accrued interest. The final page stated that it may take two business days to fund the account but that interest would start accruing from the time the account opened. It was easy and seamless.
That is great to know and will help me in the future. Thank you! I guess you can't ever trust the word of a customer service rep 100%.
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bchill
06-07-2023 at 05:17 AM.
06-07-2023 at 05:17 AM.
5.3 all day long brokered.
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Tresmagnifique
06-07-2023 at 02:07 PM.
06-07-2023 at 02:07 PM.
Quote from bchill :
5.3 all day long brokered.

Which broker?
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bchill
06-07-2023 at 02:17 PM.
06-07-2023 at 02:17 PM.
All brokerages have access to brokered CD's. These CD's are from the same banks we have in our local community, however, they use the broker houses to help them get more money from a larger audience. They are not always the best option, but seem to be best when the rate environment is on the rise or still steady like it is now. Almost all CD's on the list I just looked at are at 5.3 or above for a year. Avoid any that are callable. This means the bank could call them back if rates changed a lot in the market. J.P Morgan's are usually callable. Edward Jones has most of them, E-Trade, Fidelity, TD Ameritrade. I have a few right now. Many money managers are just putting cash into Money Market Mutual Funds. They are currently around 5.05. Some High yield savings accounts are at 5% too. I hope this helps. Example VMFXX and VUSXX from Vanguard.
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groupleader
06-07-2023 at 03:11 PM.
06-07-2023 at 03:11 PM.
Quote from MsGal :
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.

My ONLY complaint is that their app gives me a message "Sorry, our system is currently unavailable. Please try again later or call us 24/7 for help."
The website allows me to check my balance so I no longer use the useless app.
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Alhaka
06-08-2023 at 11:25 AM.
06-08-2023 at 11:25 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?
The interest is compound daily so you will still get 10 days of interest even if you close the CD before end of month.

How do I know? I had to close my CD (opened through this post) two weeks after opening it due to change of financial plan and still got some interest back. I just called in, CS spoke fluent English, quickly walked me through writing a secure message to request closing account. The phone call took less than 10 minutes and fund was transferred back to my original bank account in 3 business days. The customer service experience is great.
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