2.80% APY 1 Year CD and New Name for GMAC Bank – Daily Deal!

Get 2.80% APY on a 1 year certificate of deposit CD at the newly christened Ally Bank, formerly GMAC Bank. This beats the national average on a 1 year CD rate which today stands at 1.97% APY. Their CD rates on other terms are also very competitive.

With the Ally Bank CD you get:

No minimum, No monthly fees, Open with $0
Daily compounded interest for maximum earnings
FDIC insured
Automatic renewal at maturity
Ability to withdraw and receive earned interest as income
Grow your money faster by compounding interest daily.

GMAC Financial Services renamed its banking unit as Ally Bank, reflecting its repositioning in the wake of auto industry woes. The new name marks the moving away from a GMAC brand that goes back to 1919 when it was established in Detroit as General Motors Acceptance Corp. to help post-World War I consumers purchase their first automobiles, according to The Wall Street Journal.

GMAC Financial Services is a division of GMAC LLC, which needed to convert to a bank holding company to access $5 billion in U.S. Treasury bailout funds, which its officials reportedly hoped would come as soon as this weekend after it took the responsibility of becoming the lender for cars sold by bankrupt Chrysler LLC.

“Ally” was chosen as GMAC Bank’s new name “because it gives the sense of a trusted partner, the attributes we are trying to convey” Sanjay Gupta, GMAC’s chief marketing officer, told the Journal.

GMAC will use the new image, and higher CD rates and savings rates as a way to attract retail deposits, which will be a key funding source during the continuing credit squeeze as it tries to fill an $11.5 billion capital hole, as revealed by bank stress-test results.