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  • jaypers
    jaypers Posts: 1,138 Forumite
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    Just paid £250 into my Virgin RS and it’s showing as Pending so suspect posting date will end up being the 2nd (next working day). 
  • allegro120
    allegro120 Posts: 2,292 Forumite
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    apt said:
    Can anybody remind me which regular saver accounts can take funding on Sunday 1st and which ones only from Monday 2nd using manual transfers? I know some can take an incoming payment on Sunday but won't pay you interest, which is why they need funding on Monday.
    Sunday
    Aldermore, BoS, Coventry, Gatehouse, Halifax, Lloyds, Melton, Newcastle, Nottingham, Nationwide, Principality, TSB, YBS.
    Monday
    Co-op, Hanley, Loughborough, Mansfield, MHBS, MonBS, Progressive, Saffron, Skipton, VM, RBS, Natwest.
    VM accepts deposits 7 days a week.
    I've deposited to VM at weekend and it showed as next working day.  I don't know whether the money is credited on the date sent, but I assume it is not.
  • masonic
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    apt said:
    Can anybody remind me which regular saver accounts can take funding on Sunday 1st and which ones only from Monday 2nd using manual transfers? I know some can take an incoming payment on Sunday but won't pay you interest, which is why they need funding on Monday.
    Sunday
    Aldermore, BoS, Coventry, Gatehouse, Halifax, Lloyds, Melton, Newcastle, Nottingham, Nationwide, Principality, TSB, YBS.
    Monday
    Co-op, Hanley, Loughborough, Mansfield, MHBS, MonBS, Progressive, Saffron, Skipton, VM, RBS, Natwest.
    VM accepts deposits 7 days a week.
    I've deposited to VM at weekend and it showed as next working day.  I don't know whether the money is credited on the date sent, but I assume it is not.
    When I last deposited into my RS at the weekend (from an external account) it was credited immediately, but was future dated to the next working day.
  • jaypers
    jaypers Posts: 1,138 Forumite
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    I have visions of many of us on here transferring money at this very moment to their different RS accounts and monitoring when the money shows. Yes, that’s me too  :p
  • Yesterday, Saturday, I sent  £7K to my ex Gatehouse regular saver account that's now paying 5%. Today, Sunday, I received an email confirming they had received the money. I'm impresse d.
  • masonic
    masonic Posts: 28,493 Forumite
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    jaypers said:
    I have visions of many of us on here transferring money at this very moment to their different RS accounts and monitoring when the money shows. Yes, that’s me too  :p
    Guilty as charged :smiley:
  • allegro120
    allegro120 Posts: 2,292 Forumite
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    masonic said:
    apt said:
    Can anybody remind me which regular saver accounts can take funding on Sunday 1st and which ones only from Monday 2nd using manual transfers? I know some can take an incoming payment on Sunday but won't pay you interest, which is why they need funding on Monday.
    Sunday
    Aldermore, BoS, Coventry, Gatehouse, Halifax, Lloyds, Melton, Newcastle, Nottingham, Nationwide, Principality, TSB, YBS.
    Monday
    Co-op, Hanley, Loughborough, Mansfield, MHBS, MonBS, Progressive, Saffron, Skipton, VM, RBS, Natwest.
    VM accepts deposits 7 days a week.
    I've deposited to VM at weekend and it showed as next working day.  I don't know whether the money is credited on the date sent, but I assume it is not.
    When I last deposited into my RS at the weekend (from an external account) it was credited immediately, but was future dated to the next working day.
    The important part is the interest, whether it is credited at weekend or next working day. Deposits to LBG dated to the next working day but interest is credited from the date of arrival.  I'm not sure if VM is doing the same, I suspect they don't and therefore I don't deposit into VM RS at weekends.  It would be great is somebody who knows for sure clarified this.
  • masonic said:
    apt said:
    Can anybody remind me which regular saver accounts can take funding on Sunday 1st and which ones only from Monday 2nd using manual transfers? I know some can take an incoming payment on Sunday but won't pay you interest, which is why they need funding on Monday.
    Sunday
    Aldermore, BoS, Coventry, Gatehouse, Halifax, Lloyds, Melton, Newcastle, Nottingham, Nationwide, Principality, TSB, YBS.
    Monday
    Co-op, Hanley, Loughborough, Mansfield, MHBS, MonBS, Progressive, Saffron, Skipton, VM, RBS, Natwest.
    VM accepts deposits 7 days a week.
    I've deposited to VM at weekend and it showed as next working day.  I don't know whether the money is credited on the date sent, but I assume it is not.
    When I last deposited into my RS at the weekend (from an external account) it was credited immediately, but was future dated to the next working day.
    The important part is the interest, whether it is credited at weekend or next working day. Deposits to LBG dated to the next working day but interest is credited from the date of arrival.  I'm not sure if VM is doing the same, I suspect they don't and therefore I don't deposit into VM RS at weekends.  It would be great is somebody who knows for sure clarified this.
    Well 1K at 10% is worth 27p per day and not something that would concern very many people.
  • simonsmithsays
    simonsmithsays Posts: 433 Forumite
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    edited 1 December 2024 at 10:33AM
    Yesterday, Saturday, I sent  £7K to my ex Gatehouse regular saver account that's now paying 5%. Today, Sunday, I received an email confirming they had received the money. I'm impresse d.
    Thanks for this.

    I'm a day or so behind and in the last couple of hours have had the Profit Added and the reference has now changed.

    Interestingly the bank transfer checks (from Nationwide) identified that the REG type of account no longer existed (but the ERG did).

    So I'll now be depositing a wedge to Gatehouse.

    Working out very well this so far as at 5% it'll be by far my best EA account. Hopefully, of those that are profiting from this, some of those being extremely critical earlier in this thread about them might return and balance out their previous posts.
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