Form Balance
A higher minimum interest payment, plus room to grow.
Both proposed products combine principal repayment at maturity with minimum interest and a capped share of S&P 500 gains.
Same deposit. Same term. Interest in dollars.
Compare a fixed return with market-linked potential.
Move the slider to compare interest across all three options below.
A fixed return you know from day one.
The comparison assumes 3.90% APY with annual compounding, held for 3 years. This is an illustrative benchmark.
A higher minimum, plus room to grow.
Your minimum interest is $1,142. Positive S&P 500 price growth adds interest up to $4,608 total. You reach the maximum at 15% index growth over the full term. Proposed terms assume holding to maturity.
A lower minimum, with more upside.
Your minimum interest is $377. Positive S&P 500 price growth adds interest up to $5,678 total. You reach the maximum at 15% index growth over the full term. Proposed terms assume holding to maturity.
All figures are illustrative and before tax. “Earn up to” is a maximum, not an expected or guaranteed outcome. Returns are paid at maturity; the minimum annual equivalent is not an annual cash payment. There is no bank issuer or FDIC-insured Form deposit today.
The proposed issuing bank would owe your principal and minimum interest at maturity. Eligible deposits and covered accrued interest would be subject to FDIC limits, generally $250,000 per depositor, per insured bank, per ownership category, including other deposits at that bank. Do not assume projected market-linked interest is insured if the bank fails before maturity. Amounts above applicable limits remain exposed to the bank’s credit risk.
Understand coverage and early accessFor money you want to keep intact, with the potential to earn higher interest. Form is building direct access to market-linked deposits, with clear terms and a digital first experience.
Market-linked deposits are often sold through registered advisors, which require opening a brokerage account. Form plans to make them available directly in a bank account.
Clear pricing, direct comparisons and interactive performance scenarios bring transparency to terms that can be hard to understand in static term sheets.
Traditional distribution adds high fees to market-linked deposits. Our direct model removes these fees, leaving more for market participation.
See the pricing breakdownNot yet. Form is a product concept, and this site is a research prototype. You can reserve your spot on our non-binding pre-launch list, but no account is opened and no money is accepted. There is no issuing bank partner today.
We intend to explore issuance by an FDIC-insured bank. There is no FDIC-insured Form product today. Any future coverage would be subject to the issuing bank, deposit eligibility, ownership category and your other deposits at that bank. The general limit is $250,000 per depositor, per insured bank, per ownership category, including covered accrued interest. Principal, eligible accrued guaranteed interest and contingent market-linked interest are different. Do not assume the projected market-linked payment is insured if the bank fails before maturity. The amount of covered accrued interest would depend on the contract and applicable insurance rules. Uninsured amounts remain exposed to the issuing bank’s credit risk.
Under the proposed design, holding to maturity would return your principal plus the stated minimum return. The market-linked component would be zero. You would earn less than the standard CD, and inflation could reduce your purchasing power. These are proposed future issuer obligations, not current guarantees.
Plan to leave the money untouched for the full 1-, 3-, or 5-year term. This model assumes no early withdrawals. If an actual product allowed an early sale, proceeds could be below principal. Final bank terms would determine availability.
At maturity, we compare the index’s closing price with its starting price. Your return is the minimum total return plus your participation rate times positive index price growth, counted only up to the term’s index cap: 5%, 15% or 25% for 1, 3 or 5 years. Above the cap, your interest stays the same. The index cap is applied before participation; it is different from your maximum total return. Dividends are excluded. A 30% market scenario means 30% over the entire term, not each year.
Capping upside reduces the cost of the market exposure. In this model, that can fund more than a dollar of participation per dollar of eligible index gain. For example, 141.35% participation turns a 10% index gain into a 14.135% market-linked return, plus the minimum return. Growth beyond the index cap earns nothing extra. Higher participation does not mean unlimited returns or a guaranteed outcome.
This model assumes no direct customer or brokerage distribution fee and an embedded upfront issuer, hedging and operating reserve of under 1% of the deposit. That reserve reduces market participation. Real costs may differ. Depending on final terms, tax may be owed before cash is paid; the comparison is before tax.
We save your name, email, selected product, amount, term and the illustrated terms for product research and reservation follow-up. We do not ask for bank details, a Social Security number or payment. Automatic email delivery is not enabled in this prototype. You can download your personalized PDF and interactive scenario sheet immediately after reserving.
We assume CD APYs of 4.35%, 3.90%, and 3.80% for 1, 3, and 5 years. These are model assumptions, not offers. The one-year benchmark was informed by rates displayed on bank marketplaces; no market-leading status or continuing availability is implied. The hero compares maximum total Form Growth interest with the CD benchmark for the same amount and term, rounded down to a whole percent; it does not compare annual rates. We use bank funding curves to design the balance between minimum interest and market-linked potential.
Our model includes an embedded upfront issuer, hedging and operating reserve of under 1% of the deposit. It assumes no direct customer, brokerage or distribution fees, including the distribution charges that can be embedded in broker-sold, DTC-eligible market-linked CDs with CUSIPs. The reserve reduces the amount available for market participation; this is not a cost-free product.
We model a European call spread to provide exposure to S&P 500 gains up to a cap. The participation rate reflects the budget available for that exposure and its modeled cost. Volatility, dividend yields and risk-free rates are assumptions, not live dealer quotes. Capping upside can support greater participation in exchange for a ceiling on interest.
Form Balance has a 1.50% annual-equivalent floor; Growth has 0.50%. Eligible index growth is capped at 5%, 15% and 25% total for 1, 3 and 5 years. The maximum market-linked return equals participation times that cap; the minimum return is added on top. Returns exclude dividends and pay at maturity. Actual volatility skew, hedging, capital and operating costs can change final terms.
How capped call spreads work ↗Review the terms. Register interest. No money moves.