In The News

With the launch of the Lifetime ISA (Individual Savings Account) recently, we discuss the release of the first industry statistics on customer take up with The Daily Mail's Lee Boyce

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-4750176/Around-500-savers-day-snap-Skipton-BS-lifetime-Isa.htm

The launch of Clear Bank hasn't had the fanfare of others but it's entry to the market could be significant. Interviews with Clear Bank Founder, Nick Ogden, and opinion from our Founder, James Blower, on what Clear Bank bring to the market in this months edition of Business Brief (see pages 6-8)

http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=Business%20Brief&edid=244b1417-348a-47df-9591-bc0dd9bc7400

With Nationwide launching a new 5 Year 'Loyalty' Bond via a full page Sunday Times advert, we gave our views to the Daily Mail on whether this was a good deal for their members

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-4681900/Nationwide-offer-loyal-savers-1-65-rate-fixed-2022.html

Is opening multiple high interest rate current accounts a better alternative strategy for savers?  We shared our thoughts with Your Money’s Paloma Kubiak on the positives and the pitfalls

http://www.yourmoney.com/saving-banking/maximise-returns-opening-multiple-current-accounts/?ac=13&as=179

With Sharia banks dominating the best buys, Founder James Blower caught up with Your Money's Paloma Kubiak to discuss whether savers should consider them

http://www.yourmoney.com/saving-banking/market-leading-sharia-savings-accounts-consider/

Is banking about to become more Civilised? We shared our thoughts on newly licensed Civilised Bank with The Daily Mail

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-4537958/Civilised-Bank-given-banking-licence-PRA.html

We talked to Gillian Marles on BBC Radio Scotland about challenger banks and their impact on the market (interview starts at 1:46:37)

You can listen to the interview here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08m9sqp#play

Do fixed rate bonds having cooling off periods? We provide an explanation of the market to The Daily Mail and why many banks don't offer them.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/saving/article-4271248/Does-fixed-rate-savings-deal-cooling-period.html

We provide insight to the Daily Mail on why the pricing of Atom Bank’s new savings bonds are significantly higher than the current best buys available in the market.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/saving/article-4252282/Atom-launches-new-one-year-fixed-rate-savings-paying-2.html

We give our thoughts to This Is Money on which of the new banks expected to launch in 2017 will be of most interest to savers and why

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http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-4203110/Four-challengers-banks-savers-watch-2017.html

Lee Boyce (Daily Mail) shares our thoughts on the savings market for 2017, on Georgie Frost’s award winning Share Radio show, on why 2017 will be a better year for savers. Listen in from 31 minutes:

Read the full article here:

https://www.shareradio.co.uk/podcasts/this-really-is-money-look-on-the-brightside-06-jan-17/

We share our views with This Is Money on what we expect 2017 to have in store for savers

Read the full article here:

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-4070642/What-savings-rates-2017-savers-set-misery.html