03/10/2019
At the start of September, the best 1 Year Fixed rate from a non-Sharia provider, who typically dominate the best buy tables, was the 1.95% payed by SmartSave. This month, the best rate is 1.80% from Zenith Bank or 1.76% from Ikano Bank.
04/09/2019
Marcus by Goldman Sachs, the UK savings provider, has cut the bonus rate paid on its market leading easy access savings account, losing its place at the top of our best buy tables.
01/09/2019
I wrote in last month’s column about falling interest rates and August was another month where we witnessed a number of providers cutting their interest rates on savings.
06/08/2019
Each month, James writes a column for Around Town and BeauLieu Magazines, which go out to around 60,000 homes and businesses in Essex. This is his August column.
18/07/2019
CROWDSTACKER has appointed James Blower, founder of The Savings Guru, as an advisor to its board to assist with product development. Blower will help the peer-to-peer business lender develop and launch a suite of new services, including what he c...
09/07/2019
Revverbank has become the first new bank to be authorised by the Bank of England and Prudential Regulation Authority in 2019, having been granted ‘authorisation with restrictions’ late in June.
30/06/2019
Smart Save Bank return with best 1 Year Fixed Rate, Best business savings rate for a year, HSBC offers £175 cash bonus to switchers, Billericay Summerfest and the World’s Fastest Tuk Tuk
05/06/2019
It’s been a very quiet month at the top of the best buy tables with no changes to the headline rates, with the exception of notice accounts where Secure Trust Bank have leapfrogged Hampshire Trust Bank with their 90 day notice account paying 1.92%.
07/05/2019
If you keep an eye on best buys, you’d be forgiven for thinking that last month was a quiet month in the market, as headline rates have barely changed in the past few weeks.
15/04/2019
In the third episode of Savings Guru TV, James talks to Brian Bartaby of Proplend about the P2P investment market, Innovative Finance ISAs, and the potential impact of Brexit. The Savings Guru help start up/challenger banks apply for a licence, b...
27/03/2019
It’s been a busy few weeks in the savings market and at Savings Guru HQ with a host of rate changes, two new banks entering the market and an awards evening!
17/03/2019
Having been starved of new savings bank launches since the high water mark of 2017, aside from Marcus in September 2018, we have now seen two in a matter of weeks.
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