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ranciduk

Eco_Miser said:

ranciduk said:

If they’ve got too much money , why are they about to launch green savings bonds...

To enhance the Chancellor's green credentials.

And in the process , flood Ns&i with more millions that they apparently do want or need?

csgohan4

100 for full holding

Eco_Miser

ranciduk said:

Eco_Miser said:

ranciduk said:

If they’ve got too much money , why are they about to launch green savings bonds...

To enhance the Chancellor's green credentials.

And in the process , flood Ns&i with more millions that they apparently do want or need?

The Treasury (ie The Chancellor) decides what NS&I should raise from the general public (rather than the Treasury raising it from institutions by issuing Gilts).

No doubt the target set takes the Green bonds into consideration.

Markp1984

I've set my bonds to withdraw after the next draw on the 1st, this was confirmed on screen, telling me to expect them on the 6th, however I assumed they'd email me, which they haven't, as yet.
 Can anyone tell me if nsandi do email to confirm the money is clearing out? Thanks

MX5huggy

I wouldn’t think so, your bank don’t email you (well mine doesn’t) when you set up a withdrawal. Email is not secure.

Eco_Miser

MX5huggy said:

I wouldn’t think so, your bank don’t email you (well mine doesn’t) when you set up a withdrawal. Email is not secure.

Marcus both emails and texts when I make a withdrawal. The email contains no information useful to someone intercepting it, beyond that I bank with Marcus, but would inform me should someone else gain access to my account.

[Deleted User]

Indout96 said:

getting a bit fed up now £15k holdings not had a win for 11 months now 

Sell and re-buy new bonds.

eskbanker

[Deleted User] said:

Indout96 said:

getting a bit fed up now £15k holdings not had a win for 11 months now 

Sell and re-buy new bonds.

Hopefully a tongue in cheek suggestion rather than a serious one - deliberately missing out on a draw in order to do something completely futile obviously makes no sense....

ranciduk

[Deleted User] said:

Indout96 said:

getting a bit fed up now £15k holdings not had a win for 11 months now 

Sell and re-buy new bonds.

He must have walked under a ladder whilst smashing a mirror over his head

onthebench

High value winners are out now. Unsurprisingly I’m not on the list but I hope someone can explain an oddity. 

If you sort the list by date purchased, from earliest to latest, surely you would expect the bond numbers to ascend too (with minor fluctuations within the range issued in any given month).

Yet that doesn’t seem to be the case:

95ST583745 was purchased in Oct 98. So you’d think the “two-digit at the front” bond numbers were soon to run out. 

But then there was one starting 83 sold in Dec 98 and then a 63 in Mar 99. And then in Oct 99 there was a single-digit bond starting with just 9!

Subsequent bonds over the next six years or so were also all over the place, with two-digit numbers seemingly ordered randomly and even the occasional single-digit one being sold. 

Some time between Sep 05 and Feb 06 the current three-digit numbering system started and since then the numbers seem to behave as you would expect, increasing over time from 100XXNNNNNN to the current numbers in the mid 400s. 

Were there different bond ranges being sold through different methods before the current number range was introduced?