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flaneurs_lobster

housebuyer143 said:

jaypers said:

Was just considering opening a Shawbrook account until I saw the inflexible and completely ridiculous security questions. Favourite teacher is one…….I never had a favourite teacher! How would I ever remember in the future if I ever needed it? And you would be wrong thinking this was a one-off……oh no, favourite historical character. Nope, don’t have one or if I did I might decide it’s a different one next week. 

You are best off keeping your answers to these various questions written somewhere, because at some point it becomes impossible to remember the password, passcode and answer variations.

A password manager will have a "Notes" section where you can store this kind of extra security data, along with account numbers, date of opening account or anything else you want to associate with the site.

TisMeBill

wmb194 said:

cwep2 said:

aaj123 said:

allegro120 said:

aaj123 said:

Any decent tracker out there at the moment? I missed the recent BR-0.7% and only have the Skipton BR-1.1%.

Also, does Chase at 3.8% remain the highest paying 'proper account' that is truly instant access?

Kroo pays 4.1%.

Is there any con of Kroo at all? Seems like the best of all in terms of having a current account and getting a rate at the higher end.

There is a £10k daily withdrawal limit. If you put 50k there and want to move it to a better paying account, you’ll need to do it over several days. 

I haven't put any of this to the test but for me Kroo's app states that the daily limit for "paying friends in app" is £10k whilst it states the daily limit for a "bank transfer" is £250k and if I want to transfer more I need to contact customer support. I'm not entirely sure what the difference is between "paying friends in app" and a bank transfer - is the "friends in app" the 'Kroo' split costs between people feature it touts?

You can withdraw up to 250k a day from Kroo using bank transfer (Faster payments) the 10k is limit is for moving money to friends who also use the Kroo app.

2010

housebuyer143 said:

Eirambler said:

Absolutely, it will only be a relatively small number of people that shift their savings around like this, most people will just have their few thousand of savings in the Nationwide or Nat West at 1% (if even that) and will have never heard or Shawbrook or Tandem etc.

I have a friend with £200k in the bank from a house sale. It's in her current account earning no interest and she also hasn't split it between banks for the protection...

Her response being it's too hard to move it. 

Stick the whole lot into NS&I at 3.4% using CHAPS would be the simplest.

janusdesign

aaj123 said:

allegro120 said:

aaj123 said:

Any decent tracker out there at the moment? I missed the recent BR-0.7% and only have the Skipton BR-1.1%.

Also, does Chase at 3.8% remain the highest paying 'proper account' that is truly instant access?

Kroo pays 4.1%.

Is there any con of Kroo at all? Seems like the best of all in terms of having a current account and getting a rate at the higher end.

the App failed for me when I opened an account just after launch and it was a nightmare to close - worth remembering that currently once closed, you cannot open another account with them (which for me is no loss).

janusdesign

PloughmansLunch said:

SeriousHoax said:

Cynergy Bank 4.30%

https://www.cynergybank.co.uk/personal/online-easy-access-account/online-easy-access-account/

One more marginally lower Cynergy EA account to consign to the graveyard then!

it's worth remembering with Cynergy that when you close an old issue and transfer the balance to a new one, you will also need to setup any text alerts again for the new account - as the previous settings were linked to the now closed account and have been removed.

also, while I remember - you seemingly cannot use apostrophes with their secure messaging system - spent ages a few weeks ago trying to get a message sent and it only did so after I removed all the apostrophes from the text.

tg99

cwep2 said:

tg99 said:

Moving a large sum out of hsbc current account into various easy access savings accounts. Anyone know if the £25k per day limit applies across all channels cumulatively ie online, app, telephone….and thus pretty much limited to only moving that amount out each day? I know can fund some savings like Chip by debit card but think interest doesn’t start for a few days; Chaps I guess could be used too but the fee offsets most of the gain of doing so.

It’s £25k per day cumulatively for HSBC unless you’re transferring to another account (in your name) inside HSBC, e.g. you could put 50k into the bonus saver. 

I think (but not sure) this is also only Mon-Fri. 

See https://www.hsbc.co.uk/content/dam/hsbc/gb/pdf/help/payment-limits.pdf

You can set up standing orders to pay out 25k every day for say 4 days to transfer 100k. 

There is a separate debit card daily limit which I think is set at £50k per day and is a limit of the system rather than per bank. So transfers by debit card might be possible up to £50k but you may not earn interest until they ‘clear’. There may be HSBC restrictions which also limit the size of individual debit card transactions (probably 25k). 

Thks….assume the standing order would count towards the daily £25k cumulative limit rather than being in addition?

cwep2

tg99 said:

Thks….assume the standing order would count towards the daily £25k cumulative limit rather than being in addition?

Yes, but means you don't have to remember to log in every day to do it.
I mean you can also set up transfers for future dates as well, standing orders is just a way to automate that for multiple payments to same place.

mebu60

lcooper said:

jaypers said:

Was just considering opening a Shawbrook account until I saw the inflexible and completely ridiculous security questions. Favourite teacher is one…….I never had a favourite teacher! How would I ever remember in the future if I ever needed it? And you would be wrong thinking this was a one-off……oh no, favourite historical character. Nope, don’t have one or if I did I might decide it’s a different one next week. 

For these kind of questions, I never answer with information that someone else might know. For example, I would never use my mother's actual maiden name when they ask for mother's maiden name - because too many people know what her maiden name was.

I have a set of fake answers to all these questions:

• mother's maiden name
• favourite teacher
• first car
• first job
• favourite / first pet
• favourite sport
• favourite food
• memorable place
• memorable date
• memorable name
  
• etc etc etc

I use the same answers with all financial services providers. None of them has a means of verifying the answers - the only thing that matters is that you remember what answer you gave. It's essentially just another kind of password that you can choose freely.

I do exactly the same. And keep the answers short. Usually 4 characters works for word answers. 

mebu60

janusdesign said:

PloughmansLunch said:

SeriousHoax said:

Cynergy Bank 4.30%

https://www.cynergybank.co.uk/personal/online-easy-access-account/online-easy-access-account/

One more marginally lower Cynergy EA account to consign to the graveyard then!

it's worth remembering with Cynergy that when you close an old issue and transfer the balance to a new one, you will also need to setup any text alerts again for the new account - as the previous settings were linked to the now closed account and have been removed.

also, while I remember - you seemingly cannot use apostrophes with their secure messaging system - spent ages a few weeks ago trying to get a message sent and it only did so after I removed all the apostrophes from the text.

Also, when you're replying to their reply and typing stops it's because there is a 1000 character limit so you have to delete some of their response to be able to continue your reply. And typing into secure message does not count as activity on the site so be prepared to be timed out. There is a warning message and you can extend the time. Or compose your message offline then cut & paste in. 

allegro120

mebu60 said:

lcooper said:

jaypers said:

Was just considering opening a Shawbrook account until I saw the inflexible and completely ridiculous security questions. Favourite teacher is one…….I never had a favourite teacher! How would I ever remember in the future if I ever needed it? And you would be wrong thinking this was a one-off……oh no, favourite historical character. Nope, don’t have one or if I did I might decide it’s a different one next week. 

For these kind of questions, I never answer with information that someone else might know. For example, I would never use my mother's actual maiden name when they ask for mother's maiden name - because too many people know what her maiden name was.

I have a set of fake answers to all these questions:

• mother's maiden name
• favourite teacher
• first car
• first job
• favourite / first pet
• favourite sport
• favourite food
• memorable place
• memorable date
• memorable name
  
• etc etc etc

I use the same answers with all financial services providers. None of them has a means of verifying the answers - the only thing that matters is that you remember what answer you gave. It's essentially just another kind of password that you can choose freely.

I do exactly the same. And keep the answers short. Usually 4 characters works for word answers. 

Usually, but not always.  I opened FirstSave fixed yesterday and all the answers had to contain 8+ characters so i had to invent the new answers and write them down.