Interest

If you had a NatWest or RBS student current account between November 2002 and March this year and you haven't already been contacted about receiving a refund for wrongly charged interest, you can expect a letter detailing how much you're being refunded by 1 November.

High street bank TSB i s reviewing the 5% rate it pays out to savers on its best-buy Classic Plus account, MoneySavingExpert.com understands.

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Millions of students and g raduates will be charged more interest on their student loans from September, because the inflation measure these rates are linked to has increased sharply.

Rewards and interest rates on Lloyds', Halifax's and Bank of Scotland's flagship current accounts could be under threat, after their parent company Lloyds Banking Group said it will conduct a review as a result of "changing market conditions".

Interest rates on two different Santander products have been cut this week as customers continue to wonder whether the bank is preparing to reduce the headline rate on its flagship 123 current account from 3% to 2%.

There's a credit card punch-up going on. In the last eight weeks, 10 new table-topping balance transfers have launched. We've covered the key blows in this email, but now I want to calmly take you through step-by-step how to use this price war to save large, like Jill:

If you're a Barclays, Halifax or Co-operative Bank customer who earns 'rewards' in the form of monthly cash payments on your current account, you may owe tax.

- 95% of people won't pay tax on savings interest from 6 April