Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) is one of the Philippine banks that offers the best interest rates in the Philippines for time deposit. In order to compute for the interest that you will gain for time deposit, just use the equation below.
Interest Gain = (Principal Amount X Time Deposit Interest Rate X No. of Days) divided by 365
For example,
Interest Gain = (50,000 x 0.0175 x 35) / 365
Interest Gain = 83.90
So for P50,000 invested in time deposit with an interest rate of 1.75% and 35 days holding period, you will profit P85.
In order to increase your net gain in time deposit, you need to increase these two factors: Principal amount invested and holding period.
You can see below the time deposit interest rates for BPI as of July 2010.
Regular Time Deposit (Peso)
BPI
| Amount | 35 Days |
63 Days |
91 Days |
182 Days |
364 Days |
| 1K to less than 10K | 2.000 | 2.250 | 2.250 | ||
| 10K to less than 50K | 1.750 | 1.750 | 2.125 | 2.375 | 2.375 |
| 50K to less than 100K | 2.000 | 2.000 | 2.250 | 2.500 | 2.500 |
| 100K to less than 500K | 2.125 | 2.125 | 2.375 | 2.625 | 2.625 |
| 500K to less than 1 MM | 2.250 | 2.250 | 2.500 | 2.750 | 2.750 |
| 1 MM to less than 5 MM | 2.375 | 2.375 | 2.625 | 2.875 | 2.875 |
| 5 MM and up | 2.500 | 2.500 | 2.750 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
BPI Family Savings Bank
| Amount | 35 Days |
63 Days |
91 Days |
182 Days |
364 Days |
| 1K to less than 10K | 2.500 | 2.750 | 2.750 | ||
| 10K to less than 50K | 2.250 | 2.375 | 2.625 | 2.875 | 2.875 |
| 50K to less than 100K | 2.500 | 2.500 | 2.750 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| 100K to less than 500K | 2.625 | 2.625 | 2.875 | 3.125 | 3.125 |
| 500K to less than 1 MM | 2.750 | 2.750 | 3.000 | 3.250 | 3.250 |
| 1 MM to less than 5 MM | 2.875 | 2.875 | 3.125 | 3.375 | 3.375 |
| 5 MM and up | 3.000 | 3.000 | 3.250 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
BPI Direct Savings Bank
| Peso TD | 35 Days |
63 Days |
91 Days |
| 1K to less than 10K | — | — | 2.500 |
| 10K to less than 50K | 2.250 | 2.375 | 2.625 |
| 50K to less than 100K | 2.500 | 2.500 | 2.750 |
| 100K to less than 500K | 2.625 | 2.625 | 2.875 |
| 500K to less than 1 MM | 2.750 | 2.750 | 3.000 |
| 1 MM to less than 5 MM | 2.875 | 2.875 | 3.125 |
| 5 MM and up | 3.000 | 3.000 | 3.250 |
US Dollar Time Deposit Rates
BPI / BPI Family Savings Bank
| Amount | 35 Days |
63 Days |
91 Days |
182 Days |
364 Days |
| 1K to less than 50K | 0.2500 | 0.2500 | 0.2500 | 0.2500 | 0.2500 |
| 50K to less than 100K | 0.3750 | 0.3750 | 0.3750 | 0.3750 | 0.3750 |
| 100K and above | 0.5000 | 0.5000 | 0.5000 | 0.5000 | 0.5000 |
Do you want to open a BPI savings account? You can visit the link below to know procedures and requirements in opening a BPI savings account.
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November 18th, 2010 at 18:31
Whats the difference with BPI & BPI Direct Savings? I have a BPI savings acct, I want to try time deposit thru bpiexpress online, which from table will i get the rate?
Thanks
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Gil Reply:
November 19th, 2010 at 13:11
Hi,
BPI Direct is a subsidiary of BPI. If you have BPI savins account, you should look at BPI table.
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January 24th, 2011 at 08:37
hi,
im planning to open a savings account and wanted also to try time deposit. i can’t decide it it will be BPI or BPI family bank. can u tell me the advantage of opening an account in BPI family bank over BPI.
thank you!
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Gil Reply:
January 24th, 2011 at 12:53
Hi Reaze,
I think BPI Family has lower initial deposit than BPI but the services are the same.
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January 25th, 2011 at 12:06
hi,paano po mg apply ng time deposit?but mayron na po akong saving account,paano po ba?thanks…
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Gil Reply:
January 26th, 2011 at 12:06
Hi Nina,
Just go to your branch and ask the teller you want to invest in time deposit.
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January 26th, 2011 at 12:28
gil ask ko lang pano ba mag invest sa mutual funds at ano ang maganda pano sumali at requirements nila magkano din ang required salamat po
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Gil Reply:
January 26th, 2011 at 12:30
Hi Jezz,
See my posts here to know more about MF: http://learnfinancialeducation.com/category/mutual-funds/
Minimum Deposit in MF: PHP 5,000
Suceeding deposit: Min. P1,000
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April 13th, 2011 at 12:31
So that P83.90 from your computation is the interest gain overall? Or is it monthly interest gain? Thanks.
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Gil Reply:
April 13th, 2011 at 22:56
It is annual gain. It is based on assumption but TD has really low gain unless you have millions in TD.
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April 14th, 2011 at 07:12
Are the rates shown above stay the same as of 2011 2nd quarter? Thanks.
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April 18th, 2011 at 03:23
Hi Gil. Thanks for being helpful. I have a question about time deposit; so if for example I’d like to open one for 100K, can you please provide a sample computation for it? I did my own but given that I don’t trust my math skills, I’d like to confirm it with you if I’m right:)
Thanks for any help.
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Gil Reply:
April 18th, 2011 at 22:56
Hi Serge,
Learn more about TD here:http://learnfinancialeducation.com/category/time-deposit/
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April 20th, 2011 at 19:45
Thanks Gil for the reply. I hope you won’t mind me shooting another question:)
So in the example above, the P85 profit is the clean amount you can earn from your TD, as in if you’d like to withdraw that amount you can get it as P85?
Thanks again for any help.
Regards
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May 14th, 2011 at 14:47
Good Day Gil!! I want to ask a favor.I want to invest my 500,000 pesos in an TD account in PSBank.Last time I checked,they offer 3.000% for 30days.
so my computation:
500,000 x 3.000% = 15,000 pesos
– 20% tax
= 12,000 pesos every 30 days
Is this Correct?..I don’t want to do the long calculation since I’m into the 30day-maturity.
I will have 12,000 pesos every month?..correct me if I’m wrong.
Thank you for your response
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May 15th, 2011 at 09:14
Ahhh..Maliit lan pla. I finally get it.Thank you!
http://www.pinoymoneytalk.com/calculate-time-deposit-interest/#disqus_thread
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May 30th, 2011 at 18:41
@shawn are you serious 500k wont give you 12k itll give you less than 2k so better have a business or work!!!
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July 19th, 2011 at 06:30
To Shawn;
3% is for annual interest, in fact all figure shown by any bank in terms of time deposit rates are all annual rates. So, 500,000 x .03/12 x .80 = 1000 every 30 days.
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October 7th, 2011 at 10:19
thank you. this is useful information
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