Regular Savings Accounts: The Best Currently Available List!

Special_Saver2

Hi Folks,

I have just completed a long-awaited update for the first page of this thread. Here are the items that I have updated.

- Mansfield BS Kick Start Regular Savings (Issue 7) added to the list paying 6.1% fixed for 1 year on up to £250 per year to locals and existing members only

- Mansfield BS Young Regular Saver (3rd Issue) interest rate increased to 4.75%

- Mansfield BS Regular Savings 30 (1st Issue) no longer available and removed from the list on page 1

- Mansfield BS Regular eSaver 30 (1st Issue) interest rate increased to 4.5%

- Principality BS Gift Saver interest rate increased to 4.6% gross p.a. variable

- Darlington BS Regular Monthly Saver interest rate increased to 4.6% gross p.a. variable

- Nationwide BS Start to Save (Issue 2) no longer available and removed from the list on page 1

- BeehiveMoney Online Fixed Regular Saver no longer available and removed from the list on page 1

- Hinckley and Rugby BS Regular Saver 30 Day Notice Account interest rate increased to 5.25% gross p.a. variable

- Leeds BS Regular Saver (Issue 44) replaces previous issue and pays 5.25% until 1st September 2025

- Nottingham BS Summer Saver (Issue 2) no longer available and removed from the list on page 1

- Bath BS 16-25 Regular Saver interest rate increased to 7.49% gross p.a. variable

- Tipton and Coseley BS Regular Saver until 31.07.24 no longer available and removed from the list on page 1

- Yorkshire Regular e-Saver Account interest rate increased to 5.25% gross p.a. variable

- Coventry BS Regular Saver (Issue 5) interest rate increased to 5.05% gross p.a. variable

- Saffron BS Small Saver interest rate increased to 5.75% gross p.a. variable

- Nottingham BS Branch Fixed Regular Saver no longer available and removed from the list on page 1

- Yorkshire Regular Saver Account interest rate increased to 5.25% gross p.a. variable

- Saffron BS 12 Month Members' Regular Saver interest rate increased to 5.25% gross p.a. variable

- Cumberland BS Regular Saver interest rate increased to 5.25% gross p.a. variable

- Leeds BS Home Deposit Saver interest rate increased to 5.15% gross p.a. variable

- Coventry BS First Home Saver (Issue 2) interest rate increased to 5.05% gross p.a. variable

- Bath BS Homestart Regular Saver interest rate increased to 4.89% gross p.a. variable

- Principality BS First Home Steps Savings Account (Issue 3) and Principality BS First Home Steps Online Savings Account (Issue 2) interest rate increased to 4.1% - 4.8% gross p.a. variable (4.1% if your balance is £2,500, then 4.3% if your balance is £2,501 - £7,500 then 4.8% from £7,500 to £25,000)

- Kroo Current Account (feeder account section) interest rate increased to 4.35% AER (4.26% gross)

- Chase Saver Account (feeder account section) interest rate increased to 4.1% AER (4.02% gross)

- Stafford Railway BS Regular Saver (Issue 1) deposit limit increased to £1,000 per month; I note from some posts on this thread that their interest rate will increase from 1st October 2023 but I cannot see this on their website yet - I will keep looking out for this change

-  Chorley BS Regular Saver interest rate will be increased to 5.15% gross p.a. variable from 20th September 2023 and the maturity date has been updated to 31st August 2024 for new accounts (they seem to change this about once per month with the account maturing a month later than before) 

- Coventry BS Young Saver added to page 1 paying 5.25% gross p.a. variable on up to £200 per month for children aged 7 to 17 until the child's 18th birthday, branch only

- I have added a link to Bridlington1's thread An Archived List Of Regular Saver Terms And Conditions to the introduction post on page 1 of this thread

I will do the next update next week.

SS2

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For those new to this thread, the first few posts are regularly updated and are on the first page
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6106986/regular-savings-accounts-the-best-currently-available-list/p1

PowerSavingMode

janusdesign said:

...does that first email mean I won't receive any login details until I make that first deposit? or does that second email mean the login details are supposedly already on the way??...

I'm only new to MONBS myself, but I do have their acknowledgement that my first deposit (£1) was made yet I am still waiting (2+ weeks and counting) for the code so I can access my a/c online. Hope this helps you in some way.

PowerSavingMode

allegro120 said:

jd84 said:

I've a few months left on a HSBC regular saver, and can now get better rates elsewhere.

The minimum pay is supposed to be £25, but what if I just cancel the standing order and leave it to mature?

Do you think they would even notice or care?

I can't see anything in their terms about the rate dropping if failing to pay in, only for closing early, so not sure why they say this, given you can pay more in later months to make up the full amount.

Has anybody else had experience of this before?

Thanks

AFAIK the deal is - you don't have to deposit, but if you do it has to be no less than £25.  I've canceled my SO starting from this month, but won't close the account and let it mature (6th Dec in my case).

You DO have to make a deposit (via SO) each month, £25, I believe:

"Regular Deposits:

• regular deposits must be made by standing order each month

• the minimum monthly deposit is £25 per month

• the maximum monthly deposit is £250 per month

• if you don't pay in the maximum allowed in any month, you can carry over the unused subscriptions and

catch up in future months"

castle96

£300 isntit?

Stargunner

DJDools said:

janusdesign said:

...does that first email mean I won't receive any login details until I make that first deposit? or does that second email mean the login details are supposedly already on the way??...

I'm only new to MONBS myself, but I do have their acknowledgement that my first deposit (£1) was made yet I am still waiting (2+ weeks and counting) for the code so I can access my a/c online. Hope this helps you in some way.

I am also a new customer to MonBS and i opened 2 regular savers at the end of August. I called them today as I have still not received an activation code. They said that their system was saying one was posted on the 1st Sept, so they are posting another one today.

Middle_of_the_Road

Rosa_Damascena said:

Bridlington1 said:

jd84 said:

I've a few months left on a HSBC regular saver, and can now get better rates elsewhere.

The minimum pay is supposed to be £25, but what if I just cancel the standing order and leave it to mature?

Do you think they would even notice or care?

I can't see anything in their terms about the rate dropping if failing to pay in, only for closing early, so not sure why they say this, given you can pay more in later months to make up the full amount.

Has anybody else had experience of this before?

Thanks

This discussion came up in June. I visited a branch and enquired about it and my findings were as follows:

Bridlington1 said:

Regarding the HSBC regular saver. I've just returned from my HSBC branch visit and they said the following:

• You must make at least 1 deposit of £25-£250 by SO per account month excluding the month in which you opened the account
• You may however make further deposits by manual transfer into the regular saver so long as the total amount you pay in by any method does not exceed £250 per account month and that at least £25 is deposited by SO. So if you wished you could make a £25 deposit by SO followed by a £225 manual payment into the regular saver each month or vice versa, or make a weekly deposit of £25 into the account by SO if desired.
• If you fail to make a deposit of between £25-£250 by SO each account month (excluding the month you opened the account) HSBC reserve the right to terminate their relationship with you in line with page 34 of the general terms and conditions. The person I spoke to in branch stressed that that does not mean they definitely will close your accounts for not depositing by SO each month but that they could do if they wished to since it would be a breach of their terms.

Some on this forum have cancelled the SO and been fine but personally I wouldn't risk it myself. I've already been banned from 3 banking groups (LBG, Barclays and Metro) and do not wish to add HSBC group to that list too. I had my Barclays accounts closed in November 2022, the only thing I can possibly think of that could've caused it was that I held both a Barclays and TSB student account simultaneously for 30 mins on the day I opened the account (a breach of the Ts&Cs), which could be argued is about as severe a breach as failing to pay in £25 or more by SO into a regular saver when the terms state you have to. 

I am stunned - whilst banks are at liberty to do business with whom they like, banning is surely a sanction to cut off the lifeblood of fraudsters and not for minor lapses?

It seems people being banned from banking institutions is a somewhat new phenomenon, that's become more common in recent months.
Along with widespread branch closure, it looks like a major effort is being made to eliminate all non profitable business. Perhaps it's that we just have to accept that this is how banks operate now, and make an effort to abide by their rules, or suffer account closures with no explanation.

I can understand they take a bad view of opening an account, with the sole intention of instantly switching it to another bank. Do this too often and looks like a lifetime ban could be the result. I try to get as much out of a bank as possible without making it too obvious. Of the five switch payments I've received, each donor account was used for a period before switching. Three of them switched, only after opening a reward account, before switching the basic donor account. Later on if the reward account fails to be rewarding, downgrade to a free account.

I've recently renewed the Lloyds monthly saver, to free up the funds for Santander. Whilst there is a loophole enabling the opening another before the 12 month period is up, this is against their Ts&Cs so will not risk the consequences of them picking it up. 

badger09

MONBS Mini rant warning. 

As existing customer I applied online for the 8% RS on 29/8. Email received 30/8 that new account added online & to log in. Left UK for holiday early 31/8. Since then I’ve tried several times to log in using iPhone, hoping that account details had been added online as they were for the last account I opened so I can fund it. 

‘My Accounts’ page shows only a link requesting feedback on website. Link doesn’t work and there is no way to get past it😡
MONBS quaint ways don’t normally bother me but this is irritating. 

subjecttocontract

badger09 said:

MONBS Mini rant warning. 

As existing customer I applied online for the 8% RS on 29/8. Email received 30/8 that new account added online & to log in. Left UK for holiday early 31/8. Since then I’ve tried several times to log in using iPhone, hoping that account details had been added online as they were for the last account I opened so I can fund it. 

‘My Accounts’ page shows only a link requesting feedback on website. Link doesn’t work and there is no way to get past it😡
MONBS quaint ways don’t normally bother me but this is irritating. 

I know how it feels as I had exactly the same situation earlier this year when I opened the Mon BS Xmas Saver A/C.
It took weeks to sort out before I had online access. I had to phone them in the end. Good luck. Just persuade yourself that there are far bigger problems to worry about.

Nick_C

@badger09

But of course you don't need online access to fund the account.  Just send a FP. 

friolento

badger09 said:

MONBS Mini rant warning. 

As existing customer I applied online for the 8% RS on 29/8. Email received 30/8 that new account added online & to log in. Left UK for holiday early 31/8. Since then I’ve tried several times to log in using iPhone, hoping that account details had been added online as they were for the last account I opened so I can fund it. 

‘My Accounts’ page shows only a link requesting feedback on website. Link doesn’t work and there is no way to get past it😡
MONBS quaint ways don’t normally bother me but this is irritating. 

Are you still abroad? In which case, it might be an issue with the network you are on, rather than MONBS. 

I use Chrome on my iPhone, and I can log into MONBS fine from the UK. In the past, I experienced all sorts of issues with websites when logging in from abroad. Everything worked perfectly again upon return to Blighty.

Looks your best bet to obtain your account number would be a quick call to MONBS.