17/04/2020
Marcus by Goldman Sachs have announced a cut of 0.10% to their best buy easy access account this morning. Hot on heals of its 2020 Q1 results announcement, which showed it has grown to over 500,000 savers in the UK with balances totalling more th...
02/04/2020
Allica Bank has become the latest entrant to the savings market and the first to launch in 2020, having quietly launched its first product yesterday.
29/03/2020
Each month, James writes in Essex lifestyle magazine, BeauLieu. This is a reproduction of his April 2020 column.
18/03/2020
In normal circumstances, savers have a keen interest in the budget. Will there be new schemes or incentives to save? Will Individual Savings Accounts (ISA) or Personal Savings Allowances be increased? What does the Treasury have in store for Natio...
02/03/2020
Each month, James writes in Essex lifestyle magazine, BeauLieu. This is a reproduction of his March 2020 column.
19/02/2020
On Monday, National Savings & Investments (NS&I) announced sweeping rate reductions across a large number of its savings products, including Premium Bonds, which will come in with effect from 1st May 2020.
03/02/2020
As well as seeming to be the longest month in history, January saw huge changes in the savings market with falls in interest rates in every major category that we cover on the website.
05/01/2020
The start of a new decade will inevitably see many of us committing to New Year’s resolutions as we enter 2020. Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of surveys on people’s resolutions have very similar feels to them in terms of our favourite ones.
19/12/2019
Marcus, the savings division of banking giant Goldman Sachs, has pulled the bonus rate on its popular easy access account, losing its position at the top of the Savings Guru best buy tables.
03/12/2019
November was another volatile month for savings rates with a number of changes in our best buy tables.
08/11/2019
Having witnessed a few months of falling interest rates on savings, we’ve seen a little stabilisation in the past month thankfully.
25/10/2019
An innocuous looking email dropped in to Savings Guru HQ a few days ago from Marcus, changing the terms and conditions on their Online Savings Account. However, the contents are potentially very significant.
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