Recommeded; YBS and Kent Reliance

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realaledrinker
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Amongst all these tales of woe and dropped rates, can I recommend the cash ISAs from Yorkshire Building Society (4.9%) amd Kent Reliance (4.96% Direct ISA). Neither of which have dropped their rates in the current round of cuts.

I transferred my ISA and TOISA to these building societies during 2005 and found the transfer process to be as smooth as silk & CS very good.

No doubt they will both now drop their rates!
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  • RichyRich
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    I can also recommend YBS (although have no experience of Kent Reliance) - customer service has always been very good, but unfortunatly no branch down here in Cambridge :(
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  • alared
    alared Posts: 4,029 Forumite
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    I`ll second K&R

    http://www.krbs.co.uk/
  • Debt_Free_Chick
    Debt_Free_Chick Posts: 13,276 Forumite
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    alared wrote:
    I`ll second K&R

    http://www.krbs.co.uk/

    Me too. I put my 2004 cash in there - it's still there :)
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  • baldbloke_2
    baldbloke_2 Posts: 236 Forumite
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    RichyRich wrote:
    I can also recommend YBS (although have no experience of Kent Reliance) - customer service has always been very good, but unfortunatly no branch down here in Cambridge :(

    The Britannia BS act as an agent for the Yorkshire BS and you can apply in branch for any of the YBS accounts etc. There is a Britannia branch in Cambridge according to their site.
    I had a Yorkshire 1yr Rollover Bond last year which was available through the Britannia branch here in Norwich.
    I agree that the YBS seem to be a very good BS to deal with and they have a good range of accounts and Bonds etc.
  • steady__eddie
    steady__eddie Posts: 1,455 Forumite
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    I thank you for that info. about the Yorkshire/Britannia tie-up Baldbloke, I wished I'd have known that a couple of hours ago before I did a 20 mile round trip to a Yorkshire agency. Kent have still got an I.S.A. of mine which I transferred a few years ago.
    I was a little disappointed some years ago with Yorkshire when I applied for an e-I.S.A. on April the 6th. After 2 weeks of waiting I had received nothing through the post so I gave in and went elsewhere. The reason apparently was due to "unprecedented demand", for god sake what do these people expect at that time of the tax year ?
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