RBS and NatWest to hike overdraft interest rates - MSE News 6 January 2020 at 7:31PM in Budgeting & bank accounts 6 replies 891 views

Former_MSE_Naomi

RBS and NatWest have become the latest banks to announce a steep hike in the interest charged on overdrafts, with some set to pay 39.49%. But the banks are also scrapping daily and monthly fees currently charged for overdrafts, meaning many will end up paying less overall to use them...

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Consumerist

This announcement of around 40% interest on overdrafts was pretty predictable following the announcements of the other banking sheep.

Personally, I can't wait to see what the Lloyds group are going to come out with when their current interest rate on overdrafts is 84% (on the first £1,250). It will be interesting to see customer reactions if they keep the same rate from April.

miller

Will NatWest/RBS allow an unarranged overdraft to occur? As I understand it, Nationwide, Lloyds, Halifax etc. wont now these changes have been implemented.

Consumerist

miller wrote: »

Will NatWest/RBS allow an unarranged overdraft to occur? As I understand it, Nationwide, Lloyds, Halifax etc. wont now these changes have been implemented.

As I understand it, payments made which take you into unauthorised overdraft are discretionary. It is likely they will refuse payments which would generate monthly interest exceeding their £20 cap. (According to my estimate that would probably be around £700 over a full month)

It would probably be safer to assume that payments would be refused, however.

Eco_Miser

Consumerist wrote: »

It would probably be safer to assume that payments would be refused, however.

It would be safer still to assume that payments would be accepted or refused, whichever is to your greater detriment. Not saying banks would do this deliberately, just applying Murphy's law.

Kazzzie75

I've been comparing current accounts, partly due to these overdraft changes but I'm confused as arranged overdrafts don't have a monthly cap (on the MSE website) but unarranged overdrafts do. Does this mean I will be charged 40% up to my arranged limit but a maximum of £20 per month above that?

Dandytf

Eco_Miser wrote: »

It would be safer still to assume that payments would be accepted or refused, whichever is to your greater detriment. Not saying banks would do this deliberately, just applying Murphy's law.

I have the 250 soon to be removed 'buffer'
Any pennies over 250 -DD'S have been unpaid as you kindly suggest.