Savings Accounts

If you're a Barclays current account holder and haven't yet signed up to its Blue Rewards scheme, join by 31 Jan and you'll get double rewards for the first month. This means you can earn at least £55 in your first year on the scheme. Meanwhile, Co-op Bank's also launched a new reward scheme which can pay at least £48/year.

Banks may have to make it easier to compare and switch cash savings accounts if plans announced by the City regulator today are put in place.

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.