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Build a habit of regular savings by opening Recurring Deposits and earn a higher interest rate on your savings.
With locked interest rate
interest on your Recurring Deposit
every month
Goal based savings
Open Recurring Deposit online
Assured returns
Flexible tenures
Low investment value
Senior citizen benefits*
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Recurring Deposit (RD) is a special kind of Term Deposit that allows customer to deposit a fix amount every month in RD account and earn interest at a fix rate. RD is a systematic savings plan that offers guaranteed returns.
Any individual can open RD account. Product is available for Resident and Non Resident clients and applicable for Personal, Premium, Priority, Non Resident, Employee banking and Private banking segments.
Clients can book an RD via:
Following is mandatory for RD account set up:
RD account will get set up post recovery of first instalment from underline CASA account.
Yes. But joint account with operating mandate ‘both to sign’ must place RD account opening request at branch only.
Yes. Additional Senior Citizen rate is applicable for RD. To know details of tenure eligible for Senior Citizen Rate, click here.
No. Staff Rate is not applicable for RDs booked by staff
No. You need to have a Standard Chartered Savings Account, to open a Recurring Deposit.
There is no limitation for setting up RD accounts. Customer can open any number of RD accounts per day / month / year.
No. Your RD installments need to be funded from your Standard Chartered Savings Account.
By default 28th would be instalment date for deposits booked on 29 / 30 / 31st of the month. However customer can choose any date between 1st to 28th for monthly instalment.
Only one installment per month is permitted in RD account.
You can pay the missed instalment by paying before next instalment date. You just need to maintain sufficient balance in underline CASA account, based in your ‘Standing Instruction’ (SI) bank will recover missed instalment by debiting underline CASA account.
However if customer miss three consecutive instalments then bank reserve rights to close the RD account. It will be treated as premature upliftment of RD and all clauses of premat upliftment will be applied in this closure.
No. Monthly interest payout option is not available for RD. Interest earned on RD will be credited to the underline CASA account on maturity along with the principal amount.
No, roll over option not available for RD. On maturity, both Principal and Interest will be credited to underline CASA account and RD will be closed.
Yes, it’s possible but both the accounts must be owned by the same person. For example, Mr. X holds two accounts with SCB, one is an individual account owned by him and other one is joint account with his spouse. In this case he can choose monthly installment funding to come from first account and on maturity P+I to be credited into joint account.
Yes, premature upliftment is allowed in RD.
Premature withdrawal of the Recurring Deposit shall be subject to penalty of 1% on the interest rate payable for the tenor the deposit has been held with the bank. If premature penalty rate falls below the applicable interest rate for reduced tenure then penalty rate will also be reduced to the extent of applicable interest rate.
There is no interest payment incase of premature withdrawals of RD before the completion of minimum 3 months tenure of Resident RD and 1 year for NR RD.
No, in the event of the death of the depositor, premature termination of RD will be allowed subject to completion of documentary formalities as required. Such premature withdrawal would not attract any penal charges.
No, partial upliftment not allowed in RD.
No, this functionality is not available for RD.
Yes, customer can give nomination at the time of opening an RD or anytime during the tenure of the RD.
Yes, it does.
No. monthly installment date has will be fixed at the start of RD and remains fix till the account maturity.