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Latest Rates Rundown
22nd September 2016
Author: Anna Bowes

Category: Savings News

Generally speaking, it has been fairly quiet recently for changes to the best buy tables, as providers appear to be concentrating their energy on cutting interest rates on their existing accounts, reacting to last month’s base rate cut.So, whilst on the whole the news has been far from positive, there is a provider that has bucked the overall trend in the savings market and has actually increased some of the rates it has on offer...
Base rate cut: the story so far...
21st September 2016
Author: Anna Bowes

Category: Savings News

Following the announcement last month that the Bank of England cut the base rate to a historic low of 0.25%, a number of providers have taken action from the start of September and, as expected, the results don’t make great reading for savers...
Another base rate cut on the cards? Surely not!
20th September 2016
Author: Anna Bowes

Category: Savings News

Enough is enough. Following the most recent Monetary Policy Committee meeting this week, within the minutes the MPC have suggested that there may be another base rate cut on the cards this year, should there need to be...
Is your account paying 0.01%?!
25th August 2016
Author: Anna Bowes

Category: Savings News

Unbelievably we're seeing providers chopping rates to as low as 0.01% or even 0% following the cut in the Bank of England base rate. With thousands of new rate changes coming through and more still to come, it'll be a few weeks yet before we have the whole picture. However, with many well-known providers, including Barclays and Santander, cutting rates to the bone, you don't have to wait to move your money if you're getting a bad deal.
Latest rates rundown - Time to ditch Santander's 123 account?
25th August 2016
Author: Anna Bowes

Category: Savings News

What a month it’s been. As providers continue to react to the cut in the Bank of England base rate earlier in the month, there has been little in the way of positive news for savers, with lots of best buy accounts disappearing from the best buy tables and lower versions of accounts being launched in their droves. So don't hang around if you see an account you want.
Help to Buy ISA confusion?
25th August 2016
Author: Anna Bowes

Category: Savings News

The 25% bonus added to the popular Help to Buy ISA on the purchase of a property with a mortgage for first time buyers, was never designed to be used towards the exchange deposit, it has emerged this week.