Football fans have been dealt a double blow before the rescheduled Euro 2020 tournament, as their tickets were cancelled at short notice for games in London and Glasgow and they lost money on refunds calculated at a worse exchange rate. A huge number of British fans who had tickets for any of the eight games … Read more
Tide may be turning for savers as some providers start to nudge up rates ‘Best-buy’ two-year fixed-rate bond from Zopa pays 1% interest The best rate on a one-year bond is now 0.86% That’s higher than 0.7% at the start of the month and 0.59% in April By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: … Read more
More than £2 in every £5 saved into Britain’s best-loved savings product has been provided by fewer than 1million savers, This is Money can reveal. Despite 21.4million savers collectively holding £107.4billion in Premium Bonds at the start of this month, £46.1billion of that is held by just 920,000 people who hold the maximum £50,000, according … Read more
Savings rates might be slowly ticking up, but the cost of living is increasing even more quickly. Consumer price inflation more than doubled last month to 1.5 per cent, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday, leaving most savers with nowhere to go to avoid losing money in real terms. As a result, cash … Read more
It could be time to raid those piggy banks and check under the sofa, with four circulating 2019 10p coins that are rarer than most selling for more than a 100 times face value online. The coins, which depict an A-Z of what makes Britain great, are the second such batch after the launch of … Read more
Around 1,500 bank branches are still only open part-time more than a year after the pandemic started. Most banks restricted branch services when Covid hit in March last year, with many closing altogether. The move caused long queues down high streets around the country, while many customers complained they had been turned away at the … Read more
Around 1,500 bank branches are still only open part-time more than a year after the pandemic started. Most banks restricted branch services when Covid hit in March last year, with many closing altogether. The move caused long queues down high streets around the country, while many customers complained they had been turned away at the … Read more
Forget the Roaring Twenties, it’s austerity Britain: Households reluctant to splurge £180bn Covid savings pile as consumer hedonism goes out of fashion More people shun ‘live for today’ mantra than endorse it for first time in 22 years Expectations of post-lockdown spending splurge could be wide of the mark Nationwide survey shows reset in how … Read more
Spark of hope at last for savers as rates have risen from the rock-bottom levels of earlier this year By Sylvia Morris For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 18 May 2021 | Updated: 22:09 BST, 18 May 2021 Atom Bank now pays 0.85 per cent on its one-year fixed-rate bond Savings rates have risen … Read more
Lockdown weary Britons are readying themselves for a spending splurge on holidays, new cars and dream homes, new analysis by TSB suggests. The bank revealed its customers’ most popular named savings pots, providing an indication of what people are planning to indulge in as the UK emerges from its third – and to be hoped, … Read more