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This weeks latest savings deals
06th May 2016
Author: Anna Bowes

Category: Savings News

This week has seen some positive savings news in the form of a new entrant to the Easy Access Best Buy Table and the initial steps into the cash ISA market from a provider that has been more well known up to now for its fixed rate bonds.Whilst there are still far more providers leaving the best buy tables than entering them, it is encouraging to see a few providers bucking the trend and giving us hope that there may be better news around the corner.
Halifax slash 4% ISA rate - time to look elsewhere
06th May 2016
Author: Anna Bowes

Category: Savings News

Halifax has slashed the rate for new savers on it's popular Help to Buy ISA, a move, although disappointing, was not wholly unsurprising given its lead in the market for so long.
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.....