The New Top Easy Access Savings Discussion Area

allegro120

Bridlington1 said:

@soulsaver

Snoop Easy Access Savings Account 1 4.6% (£1 min)

Also worth noting they currently have a £5 Amazon voucher refer-a-friend offer so could be worth seeing if you can find anyone with the Snoop app before grabbing this one.

Reminder do not use this forum to request/exchange referral links, the RAF offer has been mentioned purely on a ``for info" basis.

The app calculates and categorises your spending.  This month I've spent: 
Transport - £250 deposit on WestBrom RS
Eating out - £1 on Saffron SS and £50 on Saffron MLS
Home and Family - £250 on Coventry LSS, £1 on Coventry 4 access and £500 on Furness Christmas.

I don't need this and similar features, all I'm interested is 4.6%, but if I needed this I would be disappointed with such a breakdown of my spending

Beeblebr0x

@Chaykin

I've just opened a Cahoot savers account. They wanted to know how much my annual income is (money laundering?) but I don't recall seeing any reference to a credit check.

CuparLad

Bridlington1 said:

@soulsaver

Snoop Easy Access Savings Account 1 4.6% (£1 min)

Also worth noting they currently have a £5 Amazon voucher refer-a-friend offer so could be worth seeing if you can find anyone with the Snoop app before grabbing this one.

Reminder do not use this forum to request/exchange referral links, the RAF offer has been mentioned purely on a ``for info" basis.

I looked at this account earlier today when I saw it on Moneyfacts. It seems to be one that might qualify for a DYOR advisory. From the Additional Information section:

Your money will be held with Vanquis Bank Limited which is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority.

To provide the Snoop savings account, Snoop works with a partner called Bondsmith Savings Limited, which will manage the account for you behind the scenes. This means it will:

• arrange for any money you add to your account to be deposited with Vanquis Bank Limited 
• arrange for any withdrawals to be returned to you 
• calculate and add interest to your account in Snoop

Bondsmith is the trustee, and all money held in your Snoop savings account is held in trust for you (subject to the Snoop terms and conditions and the Savings terms and conditions).

allegro120

CuparLad said:

Bridlington1 said:

@soulsaver

Snoop Easy Access Savings Account 1 4.6% (£1 min)

Also worth noting they currently have a £5 Amazon voucher refer-a-friend offer so could be worth seeing if you can find anyone with the Snoop app before grabbing this one.

Reminder do not use this forum to request/exchange referral links, the RAF offer has been mentioned purely on a ``for info" basis.

I looked at this account earlier today when I saw it on Moneyfacts. It seems to be one that might qualify for a DYOR advisory. From the Additional Information section:

Your money will be held with Vanquis Bank Limited which is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority.

To provide the Snoop savings account, Snoop works with a partner called Bondsmith Savings Limited, which will manage the account for you behind the scenes. This means it will:

• arrange for any money you add to your account to be deposited with Vanquis Bank Limited 
• arrange for any withdrawals to be returned to you 
• calculate and add interest to your account in Snoop

Bondsmith is the trustee, and all money held in your Snoop savings account is held in trust for you (subject to the Snoop terms and conditions and the Savings terms and conditions).

Snoop is part of Vanquis, they bought Snoop app about 2 years ago.

Bondsmith
"Both money deposited in cash deposits and money in the holding account is held on trust, for the benefit of the client. Money held in the holding account is deposited with HSBC Bank Plc. This means it is protected by the FSCS should that bank become insolvent. Should Bondsmith become insolvent any money in the holding account or in cash deposits is held on trust and safeguarded. The money is held in a segregated account that any creditors of Bondsmith cannot access. There is no limit to the level of protection through safeguarding, however some costs could be taken by the administrator if Bondsmith were to fail." https://www.aberdeenadviser.com/library/bondsmith-due-diligence-guide.pdf

exel1966

Chaykin said:

Never had an account with Cahoot. Anybody knows if they do a hard credit check for opening a savings account?

The clue is in the name of the account.

Chaykin

exel1966 said:

The clue is in the name of the account.

Yet great majority of banks do a hard check when applying for a current account with no overdraft/credit facilities - hence the question. Thank you for your answers.

masonic

Chaykin said:

exel1966 said:

The clue is in the name of the account.

Yet great majority of banks do a hard check when applying for a current account with no overdraft/credit facilities - hence the question. Thank you for your answers.

Almost all current accounts have credit facilities because they have fees that can be incurred while you have a zero balance, or allow payments to take you into an unauthorised overdraft. When you apply for a current account, you get a credit facility whether or not you apply for an "arranged overdraft" (an overdraft with preferential terms).

Savings accounts do not generally allow a negative balance at all, and providers can be on shaky ground where they put an account into negative balance.

Dizzycap

Chaykin said:

Never had an account with Cahoot. Anybody knows if they do a hard credit check for opening a savings account?

No credit check, just your income amount. Account opened within a couple of minutes, usually 

allegro120

I received e-mail from Metro today (pulled it from spam folder).

"We’re getting in touch to let you know that we will shortly be closing your account(s) with us. Following a review, we’ve made the decision that you will not be able to bank with us any longer......
Banking with us in the future 
We won’t be able to offer you any new banking services in the future. If we are asked for a status report about you or your account(s), we will reply that we can’t express an opinion."

I'm not disappointed, rather happy to delete Metro from my lengthy spreadsheet, but curious what could trigger this decision.  I opened Metro EA in December 2023, it paid the top rate so I've been using it a lot for 4 months. Then they dropped the rate from 5.22% to 4.97% in April 2024 (2.72% now) and my balance stayed at zero since then.  There's no minimum balance requirement for this account. I'm thinking may be they sent me a 'dormant account' warning but it ended up in spam folder and got automatically deleted (I don't check my spam folder regularly). In any case, providing I didn't breach t&c, I think a permanent ban is a bit harsh.  

soulsaver

CuparLad said:

Bridlington1 said:

@soulsaver

Snoop Easy Access Savings Account 1 4.6% (£1 min)

Also worth noting they currently have a £5 Amazon voucher refer-a-friend offer so could be worth seeing if you can find anyone with the Snoop app before grabbing this one.

Reminder do not use this forum to request/exchange referral links, the RAF offer has been mentioned purely on a ``for info" basis.

I looked at this account earlier today when I saw it on Moneyfacts. It seems to be one that might qualify for a DYOR advisory. From the Additional Information section:

Your money will be held with Vanquis Bank Limited which is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority.

To provide the Snoop savings account, Snoop works with a partner called Bondsmith Savings Limited, which will manage the account for you behind the scenes. This means it will:

• arrange for any money you add to your account to be deposited with Vanquis Bank Limited 
• arrange for any withdrawals to be returned to you 
• calculate and add interest to your account in Snoop

Bondsmith is the trustee, and all money held in your Snoop savings account is held in trust for you (subject to the Snoop terms and conditions and the Savings terms and conditions).

Thanks.

It won't get a ToTP ranking but, as usual, will get listed in the trail, linked to here - and people can make their own minds up.