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She has also written about safety, home automation, technology and fintech.Liliana HallLiliana Hall is an editor for CNET Money covering banking, credit cards and mortgages. Previously, she wrote about personal credit for Bankrate and CreditCards.com. She is passionate about providing accessible content to enhance financial literacy. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in journalism, and has worked in the newsrooms of KUT and the Austin Chronicle. When not working, she is probably paddle boarding, hopping on a flight or reading for her book club.Courtney JohnstonEditorCourtney Johnston is a senior editor leading the CNET Money team. Passionate about financial literacy and inclusion, she has a decade of experience experience as a freelance journalist covering policy, financial news, real estate and investing. A New Jersey native, she graduated with an M.A. in English Literature and Professional Writing from the University of Indianapolis, where she also worked as a graduate writing instructor.Bernadette JoyExpert ReviewerBernadette Joy is a nationally recognized money expert featured on Good Morning America and NBC News, and in Time and USA Today. She inspires her audience to explore the intersection between net worth and self-worth. While she has two degrees in business and a degree in psychology, her credibility comes from leading by example. As first-generation Filipino Americans, she and her husband AJ paid off a whopping $300,000 of debt in three years and grew their first $1 million of net worth in their thirties. Joy founded Crush Your Money Goals® for the many who are overlooked and underestimated by traditional financial services. Her goal is to help others gain confidence in managing money and provide a blueprint to achieve financial independence.Ally Bank is a popular online-only bank that offers competitive annual percentage yields on high-yield savings accounts, money market accounts and certificates of deposit, or CDs.It offers several high-yield CD terms, ranging from three months to five years, at rates well above the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s national average. Ally’s CD rates are as high as 5% and don’t require a minimum deposit or monthly fee.We also like that Ally’s loyalty reward program raises your rate by 0.05% when you renew a CD. And its Ten-Day Rate Guarantee gives you more time to get the best rate available: If APYs go up within 10 days of opening your account, your rate will, too. Here’s our take on Ally’s CD options and how they compare to other top online banks.Ally offers three types of CDs, with various terms: traditional high-yield CDs, no-penalty CDs and Raise Your Rate CDs, also known as bump-up CDs. Right now its highest high-yield CDs are its nine-, 12- and 18-month options, with APYs as high as 5.15%. The rates on Ally’s no-penalty and bump-up CDs are slightly lower -- though still well above the national average.Here are Ally’s current CD terms and rates.Ally’s high-yield CDs offer the highest return, but you’ll need to keep the money in the CD for the entire term to avoid an early withdrawal penalty. There are seven terms to choose from.Ally offers an 11-month no-penalty CD, which lets you withdraw money from your CD penalty-free anytime after the first six days of funding the account.Ally’s Raise Your Rate CD (a type of bump-up CD) lets you raise your rate a certain number of times if Ally boosts CD rates at any point during your term. You can lock in a higher rate one time during your term with its two-year option and twice with the four-year option. Like traditional CDs, if you need to withdraw funds before the term is up, you’ll pay a penalty.As with most CDs, you can only make a one-time deposit into an Ally CD account. You can fund your account in one of three ways:You can’t deposit cash into an Ally CD account. Instead, you can deposit cash into a separate account and transfer it to Ally.If you withdraw money from either your Ally high-yield CD or Ally Raise Your Rate CD before the CD term ends, you’ll pay a fee worth a certain amount of interest. The fee varies based on the length of your original CD term. Below is a breakdown of how much you can expect to pay for early withdrawal:There are a few reasons why you might want to withdraw money from your CD before it matures, but planning beforehand can help you avoid paying an early withdrawal penalty. Let’s say you open a three-year CD with Ally and deposit $1,000. But after one year, you need the money for an emergency expense. At that point, you would have earned $42.50 in interest on your CD. But you’d have to pay 90 days worth of interest, which would be approximately $10.41. So, you’d end up earning only $32.09 on your CD, while forfeiting the additional $90.50 you would have earned if you left your money invested for the full term.If you think interest rates will go up in the near future and you want to “break” your CD to open a new one with a better return, consider choosing a shorter term, building a CD ladder or signing up for a rate-bump CD that lets you increase your APY if rates rise during the length of your term.However, if you think you’ll need access to your funds, a no-penalty CD, a high-yield savings account or a money market account might be better. These accounts typically offer slightly lower rates than CDs, but you have easy access to your money. This also makes them an ideal place to store your emergency fund or sinking fund.Depending on the length of your CD term and how much you initially deposit, you may be able to earn a good return to meet your financial goals. Here’s how much you can expect to earn with Ally’s high-yield CDs based on two different deposit amounts: $100 and $1,000.CD rates at Ally are higher than average CD rates listed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation but are on par with those offered by other banks on our best CD rates list. Here’s how they stack up:However, you can find better rates at other banks. Here’s how Ally’s CD rates stack up against its competitors.If you don’t want to tie up your money in a CD, Ally offers two additional savings options with high yields and better access to your money:Ally is a solid choice for CDs and high-yield savings accounts if you’re OK with managing your account online.Though some banks offer better CD rates, we like that it’s easy to open an account online in a few minutes, and there’s no minimum deposit or balance required. Plus, you can choose from several CD types and terms, which can be helpful if you’re looking to build a CD ladder. We especially like that Ally offers less common specialty CDs -- its no-penalty and bump-up CDs -- in addition to high-yield CDs.Ally’s high-yield savings works well in tandem with an Ally checking account and lets you save more with its roundups savings feature. And instead of opening multiple accounts to track different funds, you can set up savings goals across your HYSA and organize them with spending buckets. You can quickly transfer money between internal and external accounts, but the downside is that Ally doesn’t allow cash deposits.But Ally might not be the right fit for you if you’re not comfortable banking entirely online. If you’d prefer a bank with branch access, consider a credit union or banks with similar banking products and services -- such as Capital One.