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Helen Saxon

Helen Saxon

Deputy Editor

Helen currently has strategic responsibility for delivering MoneySavingExpert's clubs and tools. Her main focuses are Credit Club and Cheap Energy Club, but she's also responsible for the site's calculators and other tools, such as Compare+ Car Insurance and – most recently – a gilts calculator, which helps compare their potential return with savings.

Previously Helen's responsibilities as Deputy Editor also included responsibility for content across the money, utilities, features and deals areas of the site. In addition to this, she was also jointly responsible for the production and distribution of the MSE weekly email, ensuring its accuracy and readability.

Helen joined MSE in August 2019 to look after the banking, credit cards, loans, savings and insurance content on the website. She held this role until 2022.

Before joining MSE and becoming a journalist, Helen spent much of her time talking to them as a PR, first for a debt help charity, then for a lenders' trade association – both of which helped her gain important knowledge and expertise in personal finance. She has also worked in content strategy for a top-six bank, leading on UX content for its new app-based account.

Latest from Helen Saxon

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The Bank of England cut the base rate - which underpins savings and many borrowing rates - from 0.5% to 0.25% last week, after seven years of no change. It also hinted the rate may fall again this year and cut its growth forecast for the UK economy.
10 August 2016
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Pensioner Bonds, for people 65 and over, which offered vastly higher rates of interest than normal savings accounts, have now CLOSED.
1 November 2015
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Virgin Money's best-buy 0% for debt shifts, new spending and money transfers (cash loans) now has a £50 freebie too and there are ways to manipulate it so you don't need to spend big to get it. But hurry, the deal ends at 23.59 on Thursday.
18 August 2015
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Virgin Money has boosted its credit card range today, launching a limited-time offer for customers taking out new cards to get a free case of wine worth £50.
6 August 2015
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Sweeping changes could be on the way to how we save for a pension, the Chancellor announced today.
8 July 2015
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Peer-to-peer savers will be able to get their 'interest' tax-free from April 2016 using a new innovative finance ISA (IFI).
8 July 2015
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Update August 2016: This news story was written in May 2015, though we've done further analysis on the Mastercard and Visa rates since then, and the logic is still the same – Mastercard still usually comes out the winner. We will do a full update of this article soon...
19 May 2015
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ISA savers will soon have the flexibility to be able to take money out of their ISAs and put it back in, without it counting towards the annual ISA allowance, Chancellor George Osborne has announced today.
18 March 2015
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Many homeowners paying a standard variable mortgage rate (SVR) with a decent credit score and 10%+ equity, can ditch their mortgage and save by getting a new one.
11 November 2014
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A new Government scheme means you could get up to £7,600 for making your home more energy-efficient under its Green Deal scheme.
9 June 2014
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Households taking out a new Green Deal Finance loan will no longer be charged for repaying early – but existing customers will still have to pay them.
29 May 2014
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Borrowers can now get 18 months interest-free spending for a year and a half, plus up to 3% cashback with Santander's new 123 credit card deal.
3 April 2014
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Barclays current account customers who use their overdraft regularly will be hit by a huge hike in charges from June under sweeping reforms to its fees. However, those who only dip into the red will be better off.
27 March 2014
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Savers will soon be able to stash away more cash in premium bonds after the Chancellor announced the current limit will rise - but it is likely the chances of winning will fall, to pay for more £1 million victors.
19 March 2014