Safe Savings

Banks will be made to display clearer information online and in branches on how much compensation savers could claim if their provider went bust. However, the new rules stop short of forcing banks to include the information on statements.

The new tax year starts today, so savers should consider putting their money into a new Isa now, as every day you don't, you lose out.

The eurozone crisis threatens to destabilise some of the Continents' top banks, so what does that mean for savers with cash in Spanish giant Santander, which has become one of the UK's largest institutions?

Derbyshire Building Society has today upped the rate on its online easy-access savings account making it the top deal for almost two years.

British banks should ring-fence their retail businesses from investment banking operations to protect savers' deposits under proposals outlined by the Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) today.

Savers' protection against a bank or building society going bust jumps to £85,000 under new rules that apply from today.

Post Office savers will no longer rely on the Irish government to protect their cash from tomorrow.

Savers' protection against a UK bank or building society going bust will jump from £50,000 to £85,000 on 31 December.

Savers will have far more of their cash protected from next year if their bank or building society goes bust.

Post Office savers will soon no longer rely on the Irish government to protect their cash.