How To Find Old Certificates Of Deposit. An old stock or bond certificate may still be valuable even if it no longer trades under the name printed on the certificate. To determine whether any money or property is being held by a state government, you can do a free search at www.unclaimed.org, a web site of the national association of unclaimed property administrators, or www.missingmoney.com, a database of unclaimed property records in most states.
Apy = annual percentage yield, V is the value of the cd. However, financial institutions issue certificate of deposits with different maturity dates.