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Barclays Bank Down
Just went into town to get some money and the ATM told me no chance. Bit of a panic (someone raided my account last year and waltzed off with £2500) so called Barclays. All ATM's, machines in shops, online banking, telephone baking is currently down They don't know when it will be fixed but a spare part is being flown in…
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Buying Euros
Excuse my naivety, and I'm sure there must be a reason not to do it, but I've had a cunning plan. I am about to be made redundant and will have approx £10,000 left to play with. I can buy Isas etc. but what about this: At the moment the rate of exchange is 1.10 Euro = £1.00 So if I bought £10,000 of Euros I would get…
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Save £2500 in 6 months?? Can I do it?? My savings diary...
Hi guys and dolls I was introduced to MSE at the beginning of the month and have become a bit addicted to it! I am always broke by the middle of the month and thought I would try and do my own savings diary and hopefully this will help me save! I don’t have any savings but would eventually like to stop renting and to buy…
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Savings
I have an aunt wi alzheimers who is now in residential care we are using her savings to pay for her care, her bungalow has been sold so we now have 50-75k to put away in the hopes of earning the most we can to assist her stay in the home. We have kept an amount back to cover the next years fees anyone got any suggestions…
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£15k to save/invest... help!!??
Hi to everyone, I'm new to this site guys and I'm just after some help please :) I have inherited a nice some of money and after treating myself to a holiday and a few treats I will have around £15,000 to save/invest. I currently dont have any debts and I live in a rented flat with my girlfriend. We have disscussed buying…
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24 k to invest ...where?
hello, my guranteed savings account of 6% is coming to an end in august. i have about 24 k saved up. i haven't found a house yet to buy so which is the best and safest way i can invest the money? all the best savings accounts are paying a meager amount of interest while all the good ones are limited to £2,500. any advice ?…
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National Savings & Investments (NS&I)
NS&I- that one that Sir Alan Sugar harps on about. Well I found my old pay in book at the weekend and also my last statement which still has my parent address on it. The account has about £13 in it and I think I want to ressurect it with a monthly payment. Anyway I plan on changing the address on it but I just wondered if…
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general quesion about right issues
Hi there, I have 50000 shares in a company, I brought them for 0.03p each and now they have a rights issues and I can buy up to 300000 shares in rights issues which are 0.015p each. They are giving away 6 new shares for every original share I own. I just have a few questions on my options: 1. if I sell my original shares…
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Do I need a card reader to transfer money from my natwest e-savings to another bank
Because when it talks about transferring money to another institution it mentions a card reader.
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MSE News Story: 'Clean' savings rates on the rise
This is the discussion thread for the MSE News Story: 'Clean' savings rates on the rise
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Halifax regular saver error
Well I have been looking forward to getting my regular saving balance from the 10% Halifax regular saver. I get a letter through the post today saying that they did not receive the last payment and so interest will be calculated at the websaver amount. eh? I checked with my bank and they have said that the regular saver…
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Halifax Faster Payments Daily Limit?
Does anyone have a definitive answer about this? I manage to transfer out £4000 by FP on Saturday, into my HSBC current account (sending 1k at a time, because it didn't allow £6000 at once). Any more above that, it said, would have to go by BACS. I assumed I'd hit the daily limit, so planned to log on and send the…
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LTSB Online Saver rate increased...
I just went onto the Lloyds TSB website a moment ago and noticed that they've increased their Online Saver rate to 5.00%. This includes a 0.60% bonus for the first 12 months.
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Tracking down Old shares
Hi all I've just found some old share info amongst my late Mum's papers - my dad who died back in 1974, had shares in 2 companies - Babcock International and FKi plc - have no idea how to find out if they still exist....or if they are worth anything? Any suggestions please? Many thanks Sue
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When will interest appear on my natwest e-savings
I have an e-savings with natwest and opened it on 7th of last month with £1 and have been adding money ever since but at the end of may no interest appeared is there a certain amount you need to have before interest shows up and on what date the following month should it appear on your statement
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Where to put £1300 a month?
Being uber frugal and having no kids or social life:eek: we are able to save £1300 a month. We don't do online banking in any form and don't want to start. We would love to find somewhere where we can save this in one place currently we save £1000 +300 in two seperate accounts. We don't need to touch this and just want to…
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What to do with a surprise??
Hi I'm new to the forum but have been pinching tips for a while and wondered if anyone could help please. I have recently gained £13k plus a works bonus of £4k. I also have a fixed rate mortgage with Britannia up in September. So what would people suggest? Pay off a lump on the mortgage, get cash isas for me and hubbie,…
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Bonds
Can anyone tell me how Bonds work? I am saving about £2000 a month at the moment split between and ISA and E-Saver. I would like a higher rate of interest (obviously) and was thinking about saving £500 a month into Bonds which I understand are offering rates ranging from 4%-5%. But I would not where to start. Could anyone…
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Savings Acc (2%+, instant access, FP in and out)?
Does anyone know any good accounts paying 2% or more that are instant access and allow faster payments in and out of them? I had trouble getting money fast from my ING account (as I really needed it the same day - own fault, didn't budget properly) so closed that account and transferred my funds to my in&out FP FD account,…
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Working abroad "temporarily", saving in UK...?
(Apologies if there's a thread on this already - I did a search but didn't see anything.) I'm currently living in Australia where I've been for 2.5 years. I'm on a 4 year working visa and although I'm resident in Australia for tax purposes, I'm not yet a permanent resident. I don't have any immediate plans to return home.…