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I like my providers to at least have an app I can view things in even if you can't do much about managing them in, so I think I will stick with Santander. I think it still just wins out on interest if you factor in the bonus vouchers anyway,
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Went for the Santander 1yr fix @ 4.5% + the evoucher offer, provides interest rate of 4.8% with the evoucher. Happy with that and the transfer from Nationwide to Santander took 3 days.
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Moneybox to Monument completed this afternoon. Started Monday afternoon, so not bad going I guess!
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I've been looking at that many different ISAs, can you manage the Santander one online? I'm sure I read you have to go to a branch or phone when you want to transfer at maturity.
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Have a Santander current account already so don’t know if that makes a difference when opening a new isa but it was all conducted online, as was the transfer request.
Have previously had fixed isa’s with Santander and at maturity have transferred to new providers with no problem all done online.
Hope that helps.
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I don't have any accounts with Santander, applied for easy access ISA online on Friday 10th April and received my new cash ISA account details shortly in the email.
You can check your cash ISA online, I received the login details sent in a separate letter from the security code yesterday and registered for online banking.
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You can open and manage a Santander cash ISA online without needing to phone or visit a branch.
That's presuming you pass an online ID check if you're a new customer (and don't need to visit a branch to provide any physical ID).
If you want to transfer away to a different ISA provider at maturity, you do that via the new provider and won't need to deal with Santander at all.
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To transfer an ISA you always go to the new ISA provider and ask them to do the transfer. I've transferred many times and never had to communicate with the old provider, let alone visit a branch!
For a fixed-term ISA they may write to you approaching the end of the term to offer you their own ISAs to transfer into. If you don't reply the default is an easy access ISA at a low interest rate, so it's up to you to do what you want at that point - but never requiring a branch visit.
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Thanks for that and the other replies, really helpful.
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I've found this under the summary box info on their site, so I'm a bit confused
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