QUOTE(hurtedheart @ Dec 28 2018, 12:20 AM)
Mm.. lets make the example easier (start from beginning of the month) for discussion. if I place the E-FD at 6am on 01/12, until 31/12 6am already completed one month. but beyond 6am of 31/12, bank still do not consider as mature, so have to wait overnight till 1/1 only consider a month?
What confuses me is: when we say a month, mean 1/12-31/12, so as long as 31/12 has arrived, why need to complete the whole day?
bank calculate it by midnight (end of day), it doesnt count in 24h cycle.
if you withdraw 31/12 6am, you dont earn interest/profit for 31/12, but only up until 30/12.
same as placement. if you put 1/12 10pm (example for eFD), once crosses 2/12 12am, you earned 1 day of profit/interest.
when bank promote the tenure as "month", it's literally by monthly cycle (not the way we perceive as calendar month)
e.g. 1 month tenure .....
placement 1 Dec 2018, maturity 1 Jan 2019
placement 1 Apr 2019, maturity 1 May 2019
placement 15 Apr 2019, maturity 15 May 2019
however, interest/profit will varies because it calculate by completed days.
placement 1 Dec 2018, maturity 1 Jan 2019 --- 31 days (excluding 1 Jan)
placement 1 Apr 2019, maturity 1 May 2019 --- 30 days (excluding 1 May)
placement 15 Apr 2019, maturity 15 May 2019 --- 30 days (excluding 15 May)
in your example above, if you placed 1/12 6am for 1 month tenure, bank determined maturity date as 1/1 (not 31/12)
placement 1 Dec 2018, maturity 1 Jan 2019 --- 31 days (excluding 1 Jan) of interest/profit is calculated.