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Penalty for early withdrawal of FD

Written By: Tiang Chuan on October 7, 2008 No Comment

A LianHe ZhaoBao reader wrote in to the chinese paper to air her displeasure over the high pressure sales tactics employed by a local bank to ‘encourage’ her to switch her fixed deposit to a structured deposit. With the current problems surrounding structure notes, she has found no form of support from the bank and the financial consultants.

According to her, the bank has also ’secretly’ amended the rules on fixed deposits. Early termination now will cause a loss of capital. This was not the case previously. The counter staff has not mentioned anything on this change. I am not familiar with FDs. Is this loss of capital a common thing? Now we even have to be careful about FDs…

我的“结构存款”音讯全无

(2008-10-07)

● 冯凤珍

  读了姚适殷在交流站上为父母喊冤的文章后,我也有话说。

  我在3年前有一张华侨银行(OCBC)定期存款到期,到银行处理时,柜台小姐把我引荐给一位理财顾问,她用了“保本”(capital protected)作保证,将这项投资比喻为现代21世纪另类定期存款,于是在高压促销下,我把到期的定存转化为“结构存款”(Structured Deposit)。

  最近的金融大风暴发生后,我起初心想事不关己,因为我向来都不作投资或投机者。但是,经过媒体的报道及有关金融专家的分析,才恍然大悟,原来我自以为是单纯的定期存款,其实是银行经过美丽包装所衍生出来的投资基金产品。

  我于是联络理财顾问小姐,手机没人接听;再致电客户中心查询,电话中的男职员又把我推给理财顾问,至今音讯全无。相信也有人和我处在同样担心的处境,希望银行能通过报章刊登的答复澄清。

  另外,华侨银行近期促销的定期存款也在“静悄悄”地更改条款。一向以来的定存若提前领出时,本金是不受影响的;但是,近期的定期存款通知单上的左下角却盖上提前领出将付罚金。柜台小姐处理时,一句话也不提,如果是不识英文的小市民,很可能又吃暗亏了。

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