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The top current accounts for interest
Features For the first time in years, savers can now get the better of inflation. Here's a round-up of the current accounts offering the best rates.
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New TSB current account pays 5% interest
Features TSB has launched a current account that gives you a much better return than most savings accounts. Ed Bowsher looks at how it stacks up against the competition.
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Lloyds wins banking's wooden spoon
Features Tim Bennett rounds up the week's personal finance news, inculding how Lloyds topped the list of customer complaints.
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Is it worth paying for a bank account?
Features Banks are on the look out for new ways to part you from your money, says James McKeigue. And 'packaged accounts' are just the latest wheeze. But are they worth it?
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Why it’s high time to move banks
Tips Competition for your current account is finally emerging in the British market. We almost have an obligation to take advantage of that, says Merryn Somerset Webb. So get on with it.
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Good alternatives to the high-street banks
Features With the recent RBS meltdown and the Barclays Libor scandal, high street banks are not our favourite institutions. But there are alternatives. And now's as good a time as any to switch, says Merryn Somerset Webb.
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How can you charge for current accounts?
Features End free banking to better regulate the banks and get a better service to boot? There's just one problem with that, says Matthew Lynn. Current accounts aren't really worth anything.
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Act fast to grab the best bank rates
Features Gemma Swinglehurst rounds up the week's personal finance news, including the best savings rates around at the moment.
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Big banks: Less good citizens than oligopolistic gangs
Merryn's Blog Our big banks want you to think of them as friendly helpful organisations. Given the awful products and service available on the high street, that's usually a mistake.
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