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HSBC offers the largest cash incentive, but is it worth switching for?
10th June 2016
Author: Anna Bowes

Category: Savings News

Current accounts are one of the most competitive areas of the market at the moment and providers continue to look at ways to tempt you in.
Are you in one of the 600+ accounts paying 0.30% or less?!
20th May 2016
Author: Anna Bowes

Category: Savings News

Shockingly, there are over 600 savings accounts paying just 0.30% or even less, which means that approximately 14% of ALL accounts are not beating inflation, even at this paltry level. Is your money in one of them?
This weeks best savings deals
20th May 2016
Author: Anna Bowes

Category: Savings News

The last few weeks has seen a marked and welcome increase in the number of new entrants into our best buy tables, with five new accounts making it into the easy access and notice account tables.
Government failing the ‘silent generation’ on savings
20th May 2016
Author: Anna Bowes

Category: Savings News

A report this week by the charity Independent Age showed that pensioners over 75 – the so-called ‘Silent Generation’– are thousands of pounds a year worse off than their younger counterparts. In fact, the charity estimates that 950,000 pensioners over 75 are living in poverty.
Brexit -  How could it affect your savings?
20th May 2016
Author: Anna Bowes

Category: Savings News

Brexit – it is the word that is on everyone’s lips, will we, won’t we? Of course until the referendum results from June 23 are known, no-one will know the answer for sure, but that does not stop us worrying in the meantime about what might happen to the status quo if we do vote to leave the EU.
Cash ISA Savers “Playing Financial Russian Roulette” By Closing Accounts To Chase Higher Rates
06th May 2016
Author: Anna Bowes

Category: Savings News

Cash ISA savers who are closing their accounts to move money into higher interest current accounts could be playing the financial equivalent of Russian roulette with their savings.