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  • mebu60
    mebu60 Posts: 1,804 Forumite
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    Hi, when is the interest rate dropping on issue 58 on the Charter Savings easy access? I've lost my email from a few weeks ago telling me the news.
    Monday. 28th. From 4.59% to 4.24%. EA Issue 62 available 4.36%.
  • SeriousHoax
    SeriousHoax Posts: 341 Forumite
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    mebu60 said:
    Hi, when is the interest rate dropping on issue 58 on the Charter Savings easy access? I've lost my email from a few weeks ago telling me the news.
    Monday. 28th. From 4.59% to 4.24%. EA Issue 62 available 4.36%.
    I'll transfer it to cahoot now that I've got my details from snail mail but probably leave charter with £1
  • mebu60
    mebu60 Posts: 1,804 Forumite
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    mebu60 said:
    Hi, when is the interest rate dropping on issue 58 on the Charter Savings easy access? I've lost my email from a few weeks ago telling me the news.
    Monday. 28th. From 4.59% to 4.24%. EA Issue 62 available 4.36%.
    I'll transfer it to cahoot now that I've got my details from snail mail but probably leave charter with £1
    If you open EA62 then close EA58 (make a transaction, use full balance) transferring it to EA62 you'll get the accrued interest too. Then shift all bar £1 to Cahoot. Close and transfer all automated and fairly immediate. 
  • SeriousHoax
    SeriousHoax Posts: 341 Forumite
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    mebu60 said:
    mebu60 said:
    Hi, when is the interest rate dropping on issue 58 on the Charter Savings easy access? I've lost my email from a few weeks ago telling me the news.
    Monday. 28th. From 4.59% to 4.24%. EA Issue 62 available 4.36%.
    I'll transfer it to cahoot now that I've got my details from snail mail but probably leave charter with £1
    If you open EA62 then close EA58 (make a transaction, use full balance) transferring it to EA62 you'll get the accrued interest too. Then shift all bar £1 to Cahoot. Close and transfer all automated and fairly immediate. 
    I'll give that a go mebu60 😀
  • happybagger
    happybagger Posts: 1,178 Forumite
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    edited 25 July 2025 at 8:55AM
    Re: KRBS closing account (old 10 digit login), do you need to send a secure message to do this? A withdrawal request for the full balance brings the warning 'below the minimum balance of £1, amend the details'. Can't see a 'close account' option anywhere?
  • janusd
    janusd Posts: 1,177 Forumite
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    edited 25 July 2025 at 9:37AM
    Re: KRBS closing account (old 10 digit login), do you need to send a secure message to do this? A withdrawal request for the full balance brings the warning 'below the minimum balance of £1, amend the details'. Can't see a 'close account' option anywhere?
    in theory yes... but dear God it's a painful and tedious process!  :open_mouth:
    I withdrew my balance, bar that £1, last week back to my nominated account and then sent a secure message requesting that that £1 either be paid to my nominated account or transferred to the new KRBS account (with username)... they replied to that *secure message* that I needed to send them a secure message requesting closure - but I had clearly stated that.
    so I replied to that requesting again and just now I received the following secure message... it's like trying to get blood from a stone - i'll try a third time, but if that fails, i'll wait for it to be migrated across to the new system!

    I will add that it takes them 3 or 4 working days to reply to each message - so if you need it doing quickly, phone them!
    Thank you for contacting us regarding your Kent Reliance account.

    If you would like to transfer funds into the Bonds and the new Easy access
    account Issue - 1 available on our website, the first step would be to
    close your current account. The funds can then be transferred to your
    nominated bank account.

    Once your account is closed, you can proceed with funding the new account.
    Please confirm if you would like to close the account and transfer the funds to the existing nominated account.
  • mebu60
    mebu60 Posts: 1,804 Forumite
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    Cynergy Bank Online Easy Access Account (Issue 89) - 4.41% AER (includes 2.15% fixed bonus for 12 months) £1 min.
    The pittance in my Issue 88, transferred in from Issue 85 a week ago, hadn't had sufficient time to generate any interest payable! Would have been a small fraction of a penny. 
  • StayinAlive
    StayinAlive Posts: 93 Forumite
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    Cahoot
    Does anyone have problems receiving OTP's from Cahoot.
    I have a fairly good 4G signal but on more than half the occasions that I've requested one, nothing arrived.
    Don't seem to have the same problem with other banks.
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