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£25 Amazon gift card for opening a TSB Spend & Save or S&S Plus account (19/12/2025 to 31/12/2025)
Get a £25 Amazon gift card by doing the following: 1: Click on the LINK (this one is from MoneySupermarket, others may be available). 2: Register your email address with Giftcloud. 3: Click "Continue Purchase" and continue on to TSB and open your Spend & Save or Spend & Save Plus account. - TSB will validate that you have…
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Lloyds Refer a Friend
I noticed that Lloyds seem to have introduced a refer a friend offer giving each person £50. If the friend joins can they also switch an account and be eligible for the £200 bonus? I didn't see anything obvious in the T&C's suggesting that it couldn't.
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Barclays Blue Rewards 2026
Is it just me or can we just get Blue Rewards for free because Barclays screwed up the implementation? From the terms and conditions: pay the £5 monthly fee. We’ll take this from your nominated current account on the second working day of the month. On your statement, this will show as the 'Blue Rewards Fee’. The first…
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Big Thank You to Virgin
I asked Virgin to close an account recently. Among other credits I received was one entitled 'Cb' which took me a long time to solve who it was from......answer Virgin Bank. Not really good enough is it ?
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Santander free forever bank account changes
Just got a letter in the post that Santander are changing my business account to £9.99 a month. I've had it a very long time and remember Santander trying this move before only to be told they can't because the original sign up material pushed it as being free forever. Does anyone have any thoughts?
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Switching bank accounts
Hi, can anyone just explain a few things for me, please? My husband and I have been with the same bank for years, and I keep looking at switching bank accounts, but I am a bit dubious. How many times can you switch? Is it all done by the bank you are switching to? Is it easy to do? Are the money incentives that some offer…
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Strange PBZ Credit SOLVED
This morning I had a Bank Transfer into my main account without any key identifier. The amount was £25.00 and had a string of numbers ending NS PBZ. I now know this is a Premium Bond prize. It's a complete mystery why they would hide their identity. It looks like a scam test of the account. Many hours wasted on the phone…
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Anti-fraud education
Does anyone know what sort of anti-fraud education is provided by a bank after someone has been scammed ?
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Do Banks Pay Interest On Executor Accounts
I don't know if I should be posting my question here or on another MSE forum board, I will try here first. I am Executor for a relative's estate. Because of various issue I cannot distribute funds to the beneficiaries of my relatives Will for a few months so they are sat in an Executor account I have opened with a high…
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Chase £10 Amazon for 5 Debit Card Transactions
Email for eligible customers for a £10 Amazon Gift Card for making 5 debit card purchases by 11th December 2025. https://www.chase.co.uk/gb/en/legal/chase-10-amazon-gift-card-offer/
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Merged: Nationwide Fairer Share Payment 2026 (Not yet confirmed that there will be one!)
This discussion has been merged.
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Scottish Bank Hoilday 2026
I have a Council Tax standing order that comes off on the first of the month, this January's one I expected it to be paid on the 5th as 1st and 2nd are Bank Holidays here, but the Royal paid it out on the 2nd. Just curious as to why they paid out then rather than Monday when banks are open again.
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RBS Reward - how to add joint account holder?
Despite the Santander calculator suggesting I'd make a bit of a profit on their cashback I was actually making a loss so I've closed that down & going to switch to RBS for the direct debit reward. I changed my bog standard whatever-it-was-called account to a reward account & it said I could add a joint account holder to…
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Idiots Guide to Switching Banks
Hi all, Looking to start switching banks to earn the freebies as I go back to work from maternity soon, and have accumulated some debts while I've not been earning. I've read the MSE guide and searched in the forum. It could be my baby brain, but I'm still not fully understanding how I go about it. I think I'd prefer the…
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Problem with calculating annual income to open bank account
Hello everyone, I’m waiting to open an interest paying bank account. I live of a lump sum, savings and a monthly allowance from my private pension and savings in other savings accounts. I have no debts and live within my budget. The problem I have is that every bank asks for your gross annual Income and I don’t know how to…
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Unauthorised recurring payments
Hi newbie here! just realised I’ve been stung on my chase card via the Apple Pay wallet. I supposedly set up a recurring payment to a company called flavor-fusion.com for £29.90 per month from feb 24. As this card is generally used for hols most of the payments have been declined insufficient funds. I have at no time had…
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Hi, Can anyone recommend a current account with a clean intuative online (not mobile) interface?
As topic, I'm currently with Santander, and as been described in these forums previously by others, I've found their website clucky and unintuitive.My latest (only because i've had to use it again!) bugbear being the 'Payee Name' problem again previously decribed in these forums (If you use COP as Payee name to ID, you…
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Unrecognised credit
Hello. I've recently received a credit to my current account from SECCL CUSTODY LIMI but have no idea who it is from nor what it is for. The bank's website recommends contacting them directly but as I say, I have no idea who they are. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Prepaid Cards Guide Discussion Area
This the discusson for Prepaid Cards guide. To discuss/ask a question click post reply.
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£10 Amazon gift card for opening a Santander savings account (09/12/2025 to 18/12/2025)
Get a £10 Amazon gift card for opening a Santander Edge Saver, Easy Access Saver, Limited Access Saver, Fixed Term Saver, Fixed Term ISA or Easy Access ISA. OFFER HAS ENDED. What you need to do: 1: Use this LINK (taken from MSE, other affiliate links are available - I've listed the Top Cashback affiliate links in this…
