PurePoint Financial offers competitive interest rates on each CD term. Their interest rates are competitive with other online CD accounts. PurePoint rates are some of the leaders in the market of online CD accounts. The interest rates are not tiered. Any amount over $10,000 earns the most competitive interest rate offered.

There are four ways to fund your PurePoint CD accounts. Fund your account through an online electronic transfer from a linked account. You can also fund your account through a mobile deposit, a wire transfer, or by mailing in a check. You can only make a deposit into PurePoint CDs when you open the account.

There are a variety of CD terms available through PurePoint Financial. The terms range from six-months to five-years. There is a total of nine CD terms offered. Each of the terms requires $10,000 to open.

PurePoint Financial offers its Best Rate Commitment. Once you fund your PurePoint CD, they watch the rates for ten days. During that time, whatever is the highest rate offered will be the rate you receive for the duration of the CD term. If you renew your CD for the same term, you are again given the ten-day period to lock in the highest rate.

To open PurePoint CDs requires a high amount. Each term requires $10,000 to open. Once you open the account, you earn the most competitive interest rates for any balance over $10,000. PurePoint CDs do not have tiered interest rates.

There is a fee if you withdraw money from your PurePoint CD before it reaches maturity. The fee for any CD term length is 181 days of interest on the withdrawn amount. That fee applies to every PurePoint CD.

The opening required amount to open PurePoint CDs is $10,000. That amount must come from a one-time deposit of at least that amount. The deposit can only come from a single account. If PurePoint does not receive that funding within 45 days, they will close the account. Once you open and fund a CD, you cannot deposit into the CD during the life of the CD term.

To open an account with PurePoint Financial requires signing up for online banking. It does not matter if you open an account over the phone, online, or in person. If the primary account holder does not enroll in online banking within 90 days, PurePoint will close the account. If you open an account over the phone, you only have 30 days to enroll in online banking. A valid email address is also required.

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Each of the ableBanking CDs has low opening required amounts. All the terms only require $1,000 to open. The CD terms available range from six months to four years.

The ableBanking CDs offer competitive interest rates. The rates are competitive with other online CDs. They are higher than the typical bank rates.

ableBanking CDs require $1,000 to open, but only $500 to earn competitive interest rates. The CD rates are not tiered. Any balance over $500 earns the competitive rates.

You can open ableBanking CDs online. ableBanking is an online division of Northeast Bank. Because of this, you open your accounts and access your accounts entirely online. You do not need to visit a branch location to open an account.

There are five CD terms offered through ableBanking. They offer six-month, one, two, three, and four-year CDs. These are the only CD terms available through ableBanking.

The ableBanking CDs do not offer an interest rate guarantee. If CD rates increase shortly after you open your account, your rates will not increase. The interest rates for each CD term are competitive.

ableBanking is an online bank. To transfer money into your account, you must link another account. This account can be the ableBanking money market account or an external account. Once you link the accounts, you can transfer money. Only one external account can be linked to an ableBanking account at a time.

The only time you can add money to ableBanking CDs is when you open the CD and once the CD reaches maturity. They do not offer CDs that you can add money to at any time. ableBanking does not accept cash deposits. Only electronic, wire, or check deposits are accepted.

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