Regular Savings Accounts: The Best Currently Available List!

allegro120

castle96 said:

just opened. Business account AS ADVISED on site. Failed CoP. Went ahead. Fully opened and funded

As CoP has now been fully implemented all personal accounts are now personal.

I didn't bother waiting for 24 hours, put correct details in, ignored failed CoP, checked 2 hours later - funds arrived as expected. 

allegro120

Bridlington1 said:

Not very exciting but for those who opened it for DD purposes:

Ecology BS Interest Rate Reductions From 18/12/24:

Regular Saver from 4.25% to 3.85%

I will close mine at the end of this month, already arranged DD replacement for it.  I won't be looking for maintaining continuous membership, it's not a "local" BS  and the chances for competitive loyalty offers are very slim. 

Dizzycap

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JamesRobinson48 said:

Principality BS 6 Month RS Issue 2:  the full application details including T&Cs are now available on the Principality website. As expected, it is permitted to hold both issues concurrently.

https://www.principality.co.uk/getmedia/d851a82b-09b3-437f-9d19-578e21c1afaf/6-Month-Regular-Saver-Issue-2.pdf

Thank you very much @JamesRobinson48 for this application link for the Principality Building Society 6 Month Regular Saver Issue 2 that you posted earlier today!

However there is now an important decision to be made. Is it advisable / better to open and fund this new issue of the 6 Month Regular Saver in the next day or two i.e. during these early December days, when one can be pretty sure that it will still be available with it having only just been released? Or would it in fact be better to delay opening it until later this month so that one can make the 2nd £200 payment at the start of January only a few days after the 1st deposit in late December, thus enabling £400 rather than £200 to be earning the 7.85% interest within a matter of days? This latter approach would also enable the maximum balance of £1200 to be earning the 7.85% interest for nearly two months rather than just over one month in May / June 2025. Any thoughts, please?

I would normally favour delaying the opening of any new Regular Saver that operates on a calendar month basis like this one does, until close to the end of the month in which it is released. However something inside me is telling me that on this occasion I might be risking this account being pulled well before the end of December. I think it's because of what's very recently happened with the Cahoot Sunny Day Saver, where its Issue 1 paying 5.20% annual interest was available for about a year, but then its Issue 2 paying 5.00% annually was only available for about a month before it was pulled and replaced by Issue 3 paying 4.75% annually. Thus I'm more than a little worried that Principality may be planning this 6 Month Regular Saver Issue 2 only to be available for a couple of weeks or so at the most before replacing it with Issue 3 paying significantly less than 7.85% (8% AER). If only we could hear from an insider at Principality who could give us some clues as to what they are planning to do in this respect!!

I usually follow your approach opening and funding end of the month because of the above procedure and did so for issue 1 in October. 

Reasons why I opened and funded issue 2 today:

- Access to funds only by closure of account
- Need interest to be available as early as possible in the next financial year (personal reasons and tax planning)
- Access to funds as early as possible next financial year to stick into an ISA as early as possible in a rate reducing environment 
- Diverting monthly available funds from lower paying accounts to higher paying
- Risk of account pull before Christmas (difficulty monitoring funding targets at society level with staff on holiday)

Of course, nobody holds a crystal ball on developments but I expect rates to still fall due to growing recession threads, potential trade restrictions due to US tariffs, softening UK labour market, debt crisis, etc. Generally a rather unpredictable macro-economic environment globally.

Hope it helps with your decision making process.

Thank you very much for this swift and very well thought out response to my earlier post!

I really do appreciate how you've so neatly summed up the advantages in opening and funding Issue 2 either today itself or certainly within the next few days rather than leaving it until considerably later in December! 

It certainly does help with my decision making process and I'm very grateful for your input in this regard!

I'm taking a half and half approach. I've opened and funded the account today and intend to close and reopen the account at the end of the month to get the full benefit of the regular saver. 

This is what I did with Issue 1 at the end of November. Closed and re-opened, funded immediately and then again 3 days later being a new subscription month. I knew it was a tight line before Issue 2 was released but like you, I may very well close Issue 2 at the end of the month to get that full benefit again!

qbadger

Issue 1 refresh still works - at least it did for me this morning.

schiff

I've had what I think is a novel experience!
Opened the new Principality 6m RS, got my account details.
Paid £200 into it from my Santander Edge putting Principality Building Society as the payee and my details in the reference box. Checked later to confirm that it had been safely received at PBS and credited to my new account.
Going to my Santander account later, I saw that the payment was showing as sent to Darlington Building Society but with the sort code code etc belonging to the Principality. Relieved of course that I knew it had reached my account at PBS.
Those wrong details are now listed as a saved payee! But they won't be for much longer!
What do you make of that?

surreysaver

schiff said:

I've had what I think is a novel experience!
Opened the new Principality 6m RS, got my account details.
Paid £200 into it from my Santander Edge putting Principality Building Society as the payee and my details in the reference box. Checked later to confirm that it had been safely received at PBS and credited to my new account.
Going to my Santander account later, I saw that the payment was showing as sent to Darlington Building Society but with the sort code code etc belonging to the Principality. Relieved of course that I knew it had reached my account at PBS.
Those wrong details are now listed as a saved payee! But they won't be for much longer!
What do you make of that?

And banking apps don't let you take screenshots to record this sort of thing. That way they can blame the customer when money goes missing 

Stargunner

surreysaver said:

schiff said:

I've had what I think is a novel experience!
Opened the new Principality 6m RS, got my account details.
Paid £200 into it from my Santander Edge putting Principality Building Society as the payee and my details in the reference box. Checked later to confirm that it had been safely received at PBS and credited to my new account.
Going to my Santander account later, I saw that the payment was showing as sent to Darlington Building Society but with the sort code code etc belonging to the Principality. Relieved of course that I knew it had reached my account at PBS.
Those wrong details are now listed as a saved payee! But they won't be for much longer!
What do you make of that?

And banking apps don't let you take screenshots to record this sort of thing. That way they can blame the customer when money goes missing 

I don’t know what phone you are using, but with my iphone I can take s screenshot of whatever is on the screen, including from within banking apps.

surreysaver

Stargunner said:

surreysaver said:

schiff said:

I've had what I think is a novel experience!
Opened the new Principality 6m RS, got my account details.
Paid £200 into it from my Santander Edge putting Principality Building Society as the payee and my details in the reference box. Checked later to confirm that it had been safely received at PBS and credited to my new account.
Going to my Santander account later, I saw that the payment was showing as sent to Darlington Building Society but with the sort code code etc belonging to the Principality. Relieved of course that I knew it had reached my account at PBS.
Those wrong details are now listed as a saved payee! But they won't be for much longer!
What do you make of that?

And banking apps don't let you take screenshots to record this sort of thing. That way they can blame the customer when money goes missing 

I don’t know what phone you are using, but with my iphone I can take s screenshot of whatever is on the screen, including from within banking apps.

Not with Android you can't 

guli

Stargunner said:

surreysaver said:

schiff said:

I've had what I think is a novel experience!
Opened the new Principality 6m RS, got my account details.
Paid £200 into it from my Santander Edge putting Principality Building Society as the payee and my details in the reference box. Checked later to confirm that it had been safely received at PBS and credited to my new account.
Going to my Santander account later, I saw that the payment was showing as sent to Darlington Building Society but with the sort code code etc belonging to the Principality. Relieved of course that I knew it had reached my account at PBS.
Those wrong details are now listed as a saved payee! But they won't be for much longer!
What do you make of that?

And banking apps don't let you take screenshots to record this sort of thing. That way they can blame the customer when money goes missing 

I don’t know what phone you are using, but with my iphone I can take s screenshot of whatever is on the screen, including from within banking apps.

categorically not true - banking apps can stop iphone screenshots should they wish - they can't stop you taking another phone to take a photo of your phone screen though!

Martico

surreysaver said:

Stargunner said:

surreysaver said:

schiff said:

I've had what I think is a novel experience!
Opened the new Principality 6m RS, got my account details.
Paid £200 into it from my Santander Edge putting Principality Building Society as the payee and my details in the reference box. Checked later to confirm that it had been safely received at PBS and credited to my new account.
Going to my Santander account later, I saw that the payment was showing as sent to Darlington Building Society but with the sort code code etc belonging to the Principality. Relieved of course that I knew it had reached my account at PBS.
Those wrong details are now listed as a saved payee! But they won't be for much longer!
What do you make of that?

And banking apps don't let you take screenshots to record this sort of thing. That way they can blame the customer when money goes missing 

I don’t know what phone you are using, but with my iphone I can take s screenshot of whatever is on the screen, including from within banking apps.

Not with Android you can't 

Just tried Chase - I can on Android.
Then tried Barclays - I cannot.
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