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It depends on your situation. Some banks will be able to give you better rates than others who usually are higher and vice verse.
If one's credit score is below standard, banks will percieve them as unreliable and give them a higher interest rate. Inversely, if one's credit score is outstanding, banks will give lower rates.
The finance companies give loans for interest at higher rates, they also lend money from banks and others for cheaper rates, if necessary. The difference of interest between these two is their profit.
The kind of banks that businesses are interested in are the kind that give out large loans with low interest rates. They want banks to give them a lot of investing.
Banks are the financial intermediaries of the economy. Without them there will be no financial prosperity. Banks accept deposits from people who have surplus and lend out loans to people who need the money. They offer other services like bank accounts, credit cards etc. They are willing to pay interest on the consumers deposits because - they use those deposits to grant loans to other customers. The loan customers pay the bank a higher interest on the loan amount. Usually the rate of interest at which banks offer loans is significantly higher than the rate of interest they give to bank deposit accounts
No. A Muslim cannot use the money of bank interest so they can give it away to others or use banks that do not give interest.
No. In this ecomony all the banks are at the same interest rate because no one can afford or wants to give their customers more.
Most people tend to do their banking at chain banks. This is because chain banks tend to keep their interest rates the same and they give a higher sense of security. However, private banks, unlike big chains, tend to give more personalized service and can be more understanding if hardships arise.
The banks mediate between those who want to deposit surplus money and those who want money. To the depositors banks give them interest and from the borrowers they charge a higher interest rate. The difference between what they charge from borrowers and what they offer to the depositors is the main source of their income.
Banks pay their consumers interest on their money in their accounts because, the same money is what the bank use to lend loans to other customers. As they are going to earn an income through the interest they charge the loan customers, banks give a portion of that interest as interest for the customers who have deposited their money with them.
Most savings accounts hold little to no interest rate currently. They are basically the same as a checking account. If you are looking for higher yield interest, consider purchasing a CD.
Banks make money by lending money to people and charging people for borrowing. The amount banks charge is called interest. Banks borrow money from other people and pay them interest on the amount borrowed. Banks charge more interest on the money they lend than they pay one the money they borrow. That is how they make money. When people deposit money with a bank, the bank is literally borrowing money from some people so they can lend it to other people. That is why banks pay interest.