Savings Accounts

Banks that pay ultra-low interest rates on savings accounts because customers tend not to switch away may face a crackdown from the industry watchdog.

Using introductory rates to tempt savers into opening accounts is to be reviewed by the financial regulator as part of a wider study into the £1 trillion cash savings market, it's been announced today.

Millions of Lloyds TSB customers have been transferred to TSB bank from today in one of British banking's biggest shake-ups.

The Post Office has cut savings rates, but only bothered to write to many of its customers after the drop.

A growing number of people in Britain are struggling to remember their passwords, a new report shows.

Record low interest rates and multi-billion-pound emergency support measures from the Bank of England are costing savers nearly £18 billion a year, research showed today.

It is now just over a year since the Government's National Savings & Investments (NS&I) bank launched the latest batch of its popular inflation-beating, tax-free accounts, meaning many customers can now withdraw their cash virtually penalty-free.

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