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Alternatives to super balance transfers

Before this month it used to be possible to transfer (without any fees) cash from an IF (intelligent finance) credit card into a linked current account. As the maximum daily transfer was £750 it would take me a number of days to get to my £6k limit but once done I could make a balance transfer to a 0% credit card and then pay the (now unencumbered) remaining free cash balance into an interest bearing account. Using this method I was able to move balances between various credit card companies and build up a worthwhile balance.

Unfortunately IF have now decided that credit cards can no longer be linked to current accounts so this scheme is now not possible.

Does anyone know if any of the other offset providers allow a similar facility?

I know that I can achieve a similar effect with a super cash transfer however that restricts me to a limited number of card providers, while the above method can be used pretty much anywhere.

Cheers

Nic

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