Any accounts which aren't savings or current that pay?

fluffymovie

My husband is going to work in Nigeria for 3 weeks and will be paid by BACS into an account.

I expressed concerns about giving out his current account details and he has decided to open another account purely for the reason to get this money paid into and secure our other monies.

I know that some banks pay between £50 & £100 to switch current accounts but we don't want to do this and would like to see if there are any banks which offer money just to open an account with them?

Does anyone have any suggestions?

opinions4u

Halifax Reward account pays £50 via TopCashback for opening, with no commitment to switch needed.

If fraud is worrying you, I'd suggest getting the wage paid in to a savings account though and then moving it from there.

callum9999

opinions4u wrote: »

Halifax Reward account pays £50 via TopCashback for opening, with no commitment to switch needed.

If fraud is worrying you, I'd suggest getting the wage paid in to a savings account though and then moving it from there.

The topcashback page says you have to switch to get the £50.

Regardless, if you don't want to switch there's no reason why you can't just open the account anyway and not claim the switching bonus. It is just a normal bank account after all.

opinions4u

callum9999 wrote: »

The topcashback page says you have to switch to get the £50.

Read it again. You get an additional £50 from Halifax if you switch, on top of Topcashback's £50 for opening the account.