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I had direct experience in the field as well. Why is a fixed deposit not run as a normal account and only a certificate is issued like shares and why is it "liquidated" into a normal account at maturity? For fixing your fund, you are giving your bank to use your money for over a period of time. You are buying period from the bank logically. You are entering a business with the bank with an agreement to give you back at that time. It has become an asset (Fixed) to you while it is a liability to the back. This is where the name implies. Can you say money you borrowed your friend with an agreement can be used instantly? No. A fixed deposit that is over a year is a fixed asset. On the issue of the interest rate, are you aware that the bank can reduce the interest rate in accordance with the prevailing market rate which would be a clause in the agreement. You are not loosing physically with your money, but as a financial analyst based on the time value of money, you will have some loss beacause if you have engaged in other form of business, you may make more money than tieing your money in the bank. In the real sense, a fixed deposit is an investment that is comparable to stock investment and it is not liquid.
A fixed Term Deposit Account is a deposit account which is as good as Cash thus isn't a Tangible Asset nor Asset of any sort to the Bank.
When Tols fixes $50,000 with Bank of America for 30 days at 6% interest rate. This fund can Never be short of the $50,000. The reason been that it is real cash as it does not have either False Sales value or Open Market Value. We recognize the Time value of Money which states that Future benefits are better than earlier benefits. Owners of such funds usually set them aside as idle fund to enable them think out of the Box. If eventually the investors pre-liquidate the FTD before it's maturity, he can only pay tiny penalty fee from the Interest paid and as such the $50,000 remains untouched. Even when the interest goes down, the Depositor has the right to re-negotiate or take his fund where he will get further returns on his deposit.
This is quite different when one tends to invest in Stocks, Bonds and Debentures Holding. You can use $50,000 to buy into stocks of organization, if by tomorrow the share price increases and you are no longer interested, you can sell of those shares so as to create further wealth. This also goes Vice versa, if the per unit price of the shares drops, oh ......you may end up realising $15,000 on your stock of $50,000.
FIXED TERM DEPOSIT IS NOT SAME AS STOCKS,RAW MATERIAL, FIXED ASSETS BUT THEY ARE REAL AND PURE CASH WHICH ITS OWNER HAS CHOOSEN IT TO BE IDLE.
You can not generate any statement of account for it and that is why it is tied to a normal current or saving account because they are liquid account.