Disclosed rates and fees
Every figure below was read from this issuer's filed agreement. Anything the filing does not state is left out of this table rather than shown as zero.
| Purchase APR | 8.99%–16.99% |
|---|---|
| Penalty APR | 17.99% |
| Annual fee | $0 |
| Late payment fee | up to $25 |
| Foreign transaction fee | 1% |
| Grace period | 25 days |
| Minimum interest charge | $0 |
| Network | Mastercard |
Analysis
On the record for Full credit card agreement 10 2023: a purchase APR of 8.99%–16.99%, no annual fee and a 17.99% penalty rate, filed by Tropical Financial Credit Union. The purchase rate sits at roughly the 21st percentile of the 4,587 agreements indexed here.
The disclosed terms
What follows is drawn entirely from Tropical Financial Credit Union's CFPB filing for Full credit card agreement 10 2023. The filing runs eight pages, and It is issued on the Mastercard network.
On the record here: a purchase rate, a penalty rate, an annual fee line, a late payment maximum and a foreign transaction fee. It is silent on a cash advance rate and a balance transfer rate.
How the purchase rate compares
Rather than a single purchase rate, the document gives a band — 8.99% at the bottom, 16.99% at the top, 8 points wide. The agreement discloses the range without disclosing how an account is placed within it.
Those two numbers occupy very different places in the corpus: roughly the 7th percentile at the bottom and the 21st at the top.
The cost of carrying a balance
Put $4,000 on the card and never reduce it, and twelve months of interest at the disclosed purchase rate comes to approximately $741.
Measured against the 21.99% corpus median, the same $4,000 costs approximately $243 less per year here.
Month to month it reads as about $56.24 per cycle on that balance.
Treat this as an illustration of what the disclosed rate does, not as a projection of a real account, which would be shaped by payments and by the fees described elsewhere in the filing.
Penalty pricing and late fees
A penalty APR of 17.99% sits in this filing, applied when the account falls into default as the agreement defines it. Against the 794 filings here that disclose one, that is roughly the 12th percentile.
On the fee side, a late payment can cost up to $25, which is around the 32nd percentile here.
What the card costs before you borrow
The annual fee is $0. Roughly 75% of filings here that state a fee state zero, so the absence of one is unremarkable in this market.
Foreign transactions attract 1%. On $2,000 of overseas spending that is $20, charged on top of whatever exchange rate applies.
Paying in full
Purchases carry a 25-day grace period: pay the statement in full inside it and the purchase rate never applies. That matches the 25-day median across the corpus almost exactly.
No minimum interest charge is imposed, so a cycle that accrues a few cents of interest is billed a few cents.
How it sits in the issuer's own range
Tropical Financial Credit Union has 11 agreements indexed on this site. The issuer's own range is 16.99%–17.99%. At 16.99%, this agreement is dearer than 0 of its siblings.
The limits of this document
The disclosure parsed here does not state anything about cash advances and balance transfer terms. Those gaps are gaps in what could be read from the filing, and the PDF may well address them in prose the rate table does not capture.
An agreement filing is not a marketing document. Rewards, perks, welcome offers and eligibility rules are not in it, are not in this dataset, and are therefore not discussed anywhere on this page.
Where the authority sits
The original filing, 8 pages long, is linked on this page and should be read before any figure here is acted on. It is also a snapshot: issuers refile as terms change.
In short
The pricing here is middling by the standards of the index — 16.99% on purchases is near enough to typical. Because there is no annual fee, everything depends on the revolving behaviour: used as a payment instrument and cleared monthly, this agreement costs nothing.
The source document
This page is a reading of one document: the cardholder agreement Tropical Financial Credit Union filed with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Where the two disagree, the filing is correct and this page is wrong.
Applications are handled by Tropical Financial Credit Union, not by us. We do not take applications and cannot say whether you would be approved.
Other cards from Tropical Financial Credit Union
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Full credit card agreement 04
Agreement filed with the CFPB
- Purchase APR
- 8.99%–16.99%
- Annual fee
- $0
- Foreign tx fee
- 1%
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Full credit card agreement 04
Agreement filed with the CFPB
- Purchase APR
- 8.99%–16.99%
- Annual fee
- $0
- Foreign tx fee
- 1%
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Full credit card agreement 07
Agreement filed with the CFPB
- Purchase APR
- 8.99%–16.99%
- Annual fee
- $0
- Foreign tx fee
- 1%
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Full credit card agreement 10
Agreement filed with the CFPB
- Purchase APR
- 8.99%–16.99%
- Annual fee
- $0
- Foreign tx fee
- 1%
Where this card sits
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