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Certificate of Deposit

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Updated 10-31-2026

Certificate of Deposit

A document is-sued by a bank or other financial institu-tion that is evidence of a deposit, with the issuer's promise to return the deposit plus earnings at a specified interest rate within a specified time period.

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