Are you aware that if you place today, 6 months from today, it falls into 5 may 2019, that is Sunday.
I do not think CIMB will pay interest on Sunday, so we will lose one day interest.
Most banks eat our money like this, this is not fair to FD depositors.
Why nobody complains to bank negara?
My FD was due on last Saturday with Public bank.
Public bank called last Friday to see if I want to renew, if renew on Monday (Today), then new FD can back
date to 3 Nov 2018, if I want to withdraw FD, Public bank will pay on Saturday & Sunday (total 94 days).
I did not renew and I placed 4.5% for 6 months in CIMB.
Just now I came back to calculate, Public Bank did not pay Saturday & Sunday, they paid only 92 days interest.
So Public Bank ate me 2 days interest.
Last time Am bank also ate me 2 days interest (Saturday & Sunday).
If housing loan and car loan payments due on Sunday, can loan borrowers make payment on next day (Monday)?
Bank will say you can make payment in ATM machine...
For both Public Bank and Ambank FDs which mature on weekends, the bank staff will manually calculate and credit weekend interest for you when you withdraw on Monday if you remind them to do so. If you don't, they'll just 'eat' your interest.
On 29 Oct (Monday) when I withdrew my PBB FD which matured on 27 Oct 2018 (Saturday), I forgot to remind staff to calculate weekend interest and true enough they didn't. So I emailed PBB CS and got a reply on that night itself from HQ saying I'm entitled to weekend interest and forwarded my email to the PBB branch manager. The manager called me the next morning stating there's no weekend interest so I quoted from the HQ email which stated all FDs maturing on weekends are entitled to weekend interest. On top of that, I told him I've been banking with PBB for a long long time and FD weekend interest has always been calculated manually and credited to my SA. He said he'd check on it and called me back in the afternoon saying they'll refund me the weekend interest. The following morning, PBB staff called to inform me weekend interest has been credited to my SA.
if you shoot them an email, they'll definitely refund you the interest.