Current Accounts
Current account customers switch to N&P
Norwich & Peterborough Building Society (N&P) is seeing rising numbers of customers switch from the big high street banks to its award-winning Gold Classic Current Account.
Nationwide sees 85% increase in customers switching accounts online
Nationwide Building Society has seen an 85% increase week on week in the number of customers opening and transferring their main account online.
Barclays cuts loan rates for current account customers to 5.9%
Barclays has launched its market leading personal loan rate starting at 5.9 per cent APR, giving current account customers the best rate on the market for loans between £10,000 and £25,000.
Students: free £50 for joining Santander - offer extended
Santander is extending its offer of £50 to any student who opens a Santander Student account or switches their existing one to Santander between 1 July and 31 August.
Lloyds TSB to introduce new interest and fee-free planned overdrafts
Lloyds TSB is set to introduce or increase interest and fee-free amounts on planned overdrafts across its range of mainstream current accounts.
Halifax £100 current account switching offer returns
Halifax has announced the return of its leading switching initiative that offers £100 to customers moving their current account to the bank.
N&P Gold Account users keep current online
More than four out of five new customers who opened an award-winning Gold current account with Norwich and Peterborough Building Society (N&P) run their finances online, new research by the society has found.
Three in ten regularly use packaged current account benefits
Packaged current accounts are here to stay, with around 10 million consumers using one and more than 40 packaged accounts on the market. But despite their familiarity, consumers are still falling into some common traps.
Take the stress out of switching current accounts
Over 40% of people have never changed their current account, while 39% haven't changed for over five years.
Students: £50 for switching current account to Santander
Santander is offering £50 to any student who switches to its Student Current Account between 16 April and 30 June 2012.
Barclays Pingit now available to all
Barclays Pingit, the UK's first person-to-person service for sending and receiving money using mobile phone numbers, is now available to the customers of all UK banks and building societies.
Brits forced to use overdraft
Four and a half million Brits are permanently overdrawn and over 17 million have gone into the red over the last twelve months according to research from MoneySupermarket.com.
Save every day with Santander's 123 Current Account
Santander has launched the new 123 Current Account, which will pay in-credit interest on a customer's total balance of up to 3% once they have more than £1,000 in their account, up to a maximum balance of £20,000.
Barclays Pingit expanded for teenagers
Barclays is expanding its ground-breaking Barclays Pingit mobile app following unprecedented consumer demand, and with younger people also calling for access on blogs, app review sites and social media.
Switching your bank account may not be as easy as you hope
Results of a consumer market study show that more than two thirds of mystery shoppers were not able to switch their bank account successfully.