Last week, Sallie Mae boosted the annual percentage yield for its 12-month CD by 10 basis points, or 0.10% week over week, to 5.15%.
Certificate of deposit rates have come a long way since the Fed started raising interest rates in March 2022.
The average online bank APY has gone up by 4.14 percentage points to 4.79% since then, Wells Fargo analyst Michael Kaye said in a note Friday.
Since banks generally follow the fed funds rate, interest rates on CDs and savings accounts are expected to fall in turn.
"Broadly we still expect online bank deposit rates to decline," BTIG's Caintic said.
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