Different Types Of Bank Accounts In India

31 JAN 2024

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Current account 

A current account is a deposit account for traders, business owners, and entrepreneurs, who need to make and receive payments more often than others. These accounts hold more liquid deposits with no limit on the number of transactions per day. 

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Savings account

A savings bank account is a regular deposit account, where you earn a minimum rate of interest. Here, the number of transactions you can make each month is capped. Banks offer a variety of Savings Accounts based on the type of depositor, features of the product, age or purpose of holding the account, and so on.

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Salary account

Among the different types of bank accounts, your salary account is the one you have opened as per the tie-up between your employer and the bank. This is the account, where salaries of every employee are credited to at the beginning of the pay cycle.

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Fixed deposit account

To park your funds and earn a decent rate of interest on it, there are different types of accounts like fixed deposits and recurring deposits. A fixed deposit (FD) account allows you to earn a fixed rate of interest for keeping a certain sum of money locked in for a given time, that is until the FD matures.

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NRI accounts

There are different types of bank accounts for Indians or Indian-origin people living overseas. These accounts are called overseas accounts. They include two types of savings accounts and fixed deposits -- NRO or non-resident ordinary and NRE or non-resident external accounts.