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Al Rayan Everyday Saver Issue 3, now 1.9% Min £5k6
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Had Gatehouse easy access account. Took 24 hours to get money transferred from a withdrawal. No good to me so closed the account and moved it to my Zopa Accountjanusdesign said:Patr100 said:Ok, as Atom are failing to keep up , I'm ;looking at the next best thing to move to.
I've already got maxxed up in Zopa and Sherbrook and Virgin Money is only 25k max so not suitable for my remaining 60K
not keen on Sharia accounts but looking at GateHouse at 1.80% -
Tried a search here but few recent review threads so has anyone used them/had nay experience with GateHouse here?i've got their Easy Access account... I paid in another £1k yesterday around 11am and it was in there an hour or two later (can't remember if i got notification, so don't have an exact timing). if you deposit before 1pm, then it should appear same day... after 1pm, it's next day... I can't give you my experience of withdrawing from Gatehouse as I haven't done that yet.if you want to go down the Sharia route, then in addition to Gatehouse @ 1.80%, there is also Al Rayan... deposits are faster with them, but again, have not made a withdrawal from them yet.not to go off-topic, but if you can put your 60k away without needing it for 3 months, Allica have a 95-day notice account paying 2.20% (£10k)... depositing with them is very fast in my experience (minutes), but you get no notification of a deposit (SMS, email, app etc - they plan to do this in the future), so you would need to check the balance in the site/app... to give them notice, you call or send them a secure message.
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New table topper, niceExpotter said:Al Rayan Everyday Saver Issue 3, now 1.9% Min £5k
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Is it worth waiting, until the dust settles? Maybe, until the end of next week?0
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Daliah said:
You might as well earn top interest whilst you wait. There is no timescale for for the dust to settle, so you could be waiting and waiting and waiting.pearl123 said:Is it worth waiting, until the dust settles? Maybe, until the end of next week?
And there'll likely be another rise in a few weeks when Bank of England meet again. I think best to start moving money, earn interest and suck up the admin when you might need to move it again.
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Thanks, thinking again I could look at Alicia and more notice accounts (already in Zopa) - my current account is healthy but I just like the option of accessing one of the savings accounts immediately should I need it in an emergency but my CC balance should tide me over for most events.janusdesign said:Patr100 said:Ok, as Atom are failing to keep up , I'm ;looking at the next best thing to move to.
I've already got maxxed up in Zopa and Sherbrook and Virgin Money is only 25k max so not suitable for my remaining 60K
not keen on Sharia accounts but looking at GateHouse at 1.80% -
Tried a search here but few recent review threads so has anyone used them/had nay experience with GateHouse here?i've got their Easy Access account... I paid in another £1k yesterday around 11am and it was in there an hour or two later (can't remember if i got notification, so don't have an exact timing). if you deposit before 1pm, then it should appear same day... after 1pm, it's next day... I can't give you my experience of withdrawing from Gatehouse as I haven't done that yet.if you want to go down the Sharia route, then in addition to Gatehouse @ 1.80%, there is also Al Rayan... deposits are faster with them, but again, have not made a withdrawal from them yet.not to go off-topic, but if you can put your 60k away without needing it for 3 months, Allica have a 95-day notice account paying 2.20% (£10k)... depositing with them is very fast in my experience (minutes), but you get no notification of a deposit (SMS, email, app etc - they plan to do this in the future), so you would need to check the balance in the site/app... to give them notice, you call or send them a secure message.
- dont think there is a thread on notice accounts0 -
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6370428/notice-accountsPatr100 said:
Thanks, thinking again I could look at Alicia and more notice accounts (already in Zopa) - my current account is healthy but I just like the option of accessing one of the savings accounts immediately should I need it in an emergency but my CC balance should tide me over for most events.janusdesign said:Patr100 said:Ok, as Atom are failing to keep up , I'm ;looking at the next best thing to move to.
I've already got maxxed up in Zopa and Sherbrook and Virgin Money is only 25k max so not suitable for my remaining 60K
not keen on Sharia accounts but looking at GateHouse at 1.80% -
Tried a search here but few recent review threads so has anyone used them/had nay experience with GateHouse here?i've got their Easy Access account... I paid in another £1k yesterday around 11am and it was in there an hour or two later (can't remember if i got notification, so don't have an exact timing). if you deposit before 1pm, then it should appear same day... after 1pm, it's next day... I can't give you my experience of withdrawing from Gatehouse as I haven't done that yet.if you want to go down the Sharia route, then in addition to Gatehouse @ 1.80%, there is also Al Rayan... deposits are faster with them, but again, have not made a withdrawal from them yet.not to go off-topic, but if you can put your 60k away without needing it for 3 months, Allica have a 95-day notice account paying 2.20% (£10k)... depositing with them is very fast in my experience (minutes), but you get no notification of a deposit (SMS, email, app etc - they plan to do this in the future), so you would need to check the balance in the site/app... to give them notice, you call or send them a secure message.
- dont think there is a thread on notice accounts
Top 4 to consider Allica, Oak North, Investec or Zopa1 -
Ah cheers! Did have a look at the first few pages in Saving forum but missed it - and the search here is not very user friendly IMO.Expotter said:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6370428/notice-accountsPatr100 said:
Thanks, thinking again I could look at Alicia and more notice accounts (already in Zopa) - my current account is healthy but I just like the option of accessing one of the savings accounts immediately should I need it in an emergency but my CC balance should tide me over for most events.janusdesign said:Patr100 said:Ok, as Atom are failing to keep up , I'm ;looking at the next best thing to move to.
I've already got maxxed up in Zopa and Sherbrook and Virgin Money is only 25k max so not suitable for my remaining 60K
not keen on Sharia accounts but looking at GateHouse at 1.80% -
Tried a search here but few recent review threads so has anyone used them/had nay experience with GateHouse here?i've got their Easy Access account... I paid in another £1k yesterday around 11am and it was in there an hour or two later (can't remember if i got notification, so don't have an exact timing). if you deposit before 1pm, then it should appear same day... after 1pm, it's next day... I can't give you my experience of withdrawing from Gatehouse as I haven't done that yet.if you want to go down the Sharia route, then in addition to Gatehouse @ 1.80%, there is also Al Rayan... deposits are faster with them, but again, have not made a withdrawal from them yet.not to go off-topic, but if you can put your 60k away without needing it for 3 months, Allica have a 95-day notice account paying 2.20% (£10k)... depositing with them is very fast in my experience (minutes), but you get no notification of a deposit (SMS, email, app etc - they plan to do this in the future), so you would need to check the balance in the site/app... to give them notice, you call or send them a secure message.
- dont think there is a thread on notice accounts
Top 4 to consider Allica, Oak North, Investec or Zopa0 -
ToP Easy Access table page 651 edited accordingly.Expotter said:Al Rayan Everyday Saver Issue 3, now 1.9% Min £5k
There will be the recast list at the w.e.... lets hope Al has been overtaken...
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