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Provider Focus - Atom Bank
06th May 2016
Author: Dan Darragh

Category: Savings News

The provider chosen this time is a new bank, Atom Bank, the first of a group of banks that are focusing on utilising digital technology, with the aim to make banking easier and more convenient.
Manchester Building Society under threat
21st April 2016
Author: Anna Bowes

Category: Savings News

Manchester Building Society has contacted its savers recommending they reduce savings, where necessary, to the compensation limit afforded by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).
Latest savings rate rundown of the best rates in today's market
21st April 2016
Author: Anna Bowes

Category: Savings News

With the 2016/17 tax year now fully underway and the Personal Savings Allowance beginning to bed in, you would be forgiven for thinking that good news in the form of new best buy accounts has fallen rather flat in recent weeks.
Thinking of ditching your ISA? You might want to think again
21st April 2016
Author: Anna Bowes

Category: Savings News

The Personal Savings Allowance has brought the benefits of ISA saving into question, not least because for basic rate taxpayers the amount you can now have in traditional cash savings before you start paying tax is more than £68,000.....
Inflation hits 14 month high – how do your savings compare?
21st April 2016
Author: Anna Bowes

Category: Savings News

Low inflation is generally seen as good news for savers, as the task of finding an account that makes a return in real terms is made easier, but shockingly around 1 in 4 accounts are not currently beating inflation...
The Personal Savings Allowance is here!
07th April 2016
Author: Anna Bowes

Category: Savings News

Although it’s been a while since we first heard about this new allowance, it seems many people are still in the dark about what it means and how it will affect them.