Ladder term savings with interest rates higher over the term
(Updated at 9:29, 26/8/2010)

This is a savings product that interest is determined corresponding to the step progress: the longer over the term, the higher the interest rate.

Main features

 

-          Savings term: maximum term: 36 months

-          Currency: VND, USD, EUR

-          Minimum depositing balance: VND 1,000,000, USD 100, EUR 100

-          Making deposit: one-off deposit into savings account at counter

-          Withdrawal: multiple withdrawals from account at counter of the account-opening-branch or other Agribank branches (multiple deposits and withdrawals).

-          Fees: penalty for early withdrawal applies (customers close savings book within 07 working days from the date of opening), service charges are according to the current Schedule of fees and charges of Agribank.

-          Interest: fixed interest rates corresponding to the steps. Rates are published at transaction offices of Agribank and recorded in savings books when customers open the book.

 

      Tiered interest rates: applicable to steps of ladder term savings:

 

 Step

Time (t)

Interest grade

 Step 1

t < 3 months

Demand interest rate

 Step 2

3 months ≤ t < 6 months

3 months

 Step 3

6 months ≤ t < 9 months   

6 months

 Step 4

9 months ≤ t < 12months   

9 months

 Step 5

12 months ≤ t < 24 months   

12 months

 Step 6

t > 24 months

24 months

 

-          Interest Calculation: Interest = principal amount withdrawn x Grade x actual savings time

-          Interest is paid on the part withdrawn from the principal amount. Over 36 months if customer do not close account, the bank shall automatically roll-over the savings with new tiered interest rates applicable at the time of roll-over.

 

Benefit

 

-          The longer the time over the term, the higher interest rates, up to 36 months

-          Customers can make multiple withdrawals of principal and enjoy interest in corresponding steps.

-          Customers can transfer ownership of savings books

-          Savings books can be used as borrowing security or loan guarantee for the 3rd person at any Agribank branches or financial institutions.

-          Savings books can be used by customers as financial certificates or used as security for loans for relatives’ study/work abroad.

 

 

Conditions of use:

 

-          VND savings: applicable to Vietnamese individual customers and foreign individual customers living and working legally in Vietnam.

-          Foreign currency savings:  applicable to individual residents.

 

How to apply

 

Customers to sign up directly at Agribank branches in written deposit form as stipulated by Agribank and produce the following documents:

 

-          Valid ID or passport

-          For individuals from 15 years of age to less than 18 years of age: produce more documents to prove that bank deposits are the property of their own, including papers on inheritance, donation, or other documents to prove the money deposited in banks as their assets.

-          A/C holders to sign Specimen Signature cards for bank record. Where A/C holders can not write in any way, Agribank shall guide to A/C holders to fingerprint or register special code or symbols instead of specimen signatures.

-          In cases where A/C holders wish to deposit and withdraw at different places, the bank shall provide A/C holders with special deposit ID numbers and cards for this purpose.

-          Other procedures to receive savings deposits, open savings accounts and issue savings books to A/C holders after all of the above procedure.

 

 

Applied at Operations Centre of Agribank