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Shawbrook bank are offering instant access savings at 1.75% annual or 1.74% monthly. Min £1000, min withdrawal £500 which takes a day.

Better than a poke with a stick, but I've never heard of them. FSCS and all that. Has anyone experience of them?

https://www.shawbrook.co.uk/direct/savings/personal-savings/easy-access-savings-accounts/easy-access/

I came across them on moneysavingexpert. Good Trustpilot rating with plenty of reviews. Skimmed the docs and no obvious gotchas. I've applied, but not yet parted with any money, and await any feedback from Fools.

NotSure wrote:Shawbrook bank are offering instant access savings at 1.75% annual or 1.74% monthly. Min £1000, min withdrawal £500 which takes a day.

Better than a poke with a stick, but I've never heard of them. FSCS and all that. Has anyone experience of them?

Yep, for several years. My last comment on them at viewtopic.php?p=503339#p503339

That post says I (then) had them in "dormant" mode but since then I've taken up the 6 month a/c mentioned in that post and they've also moved to the top-ish of the instant access a/c league table so I've put a chunk in that too (and before their most recent increase to 1.75%).

One other thing that's changed since that post is that they no longer create new "issues" of their instant access a/c whenever they raise interest rates but have just increased the rate on the existing issue, which saves the faff of having to ask them to upgrade the a/c from the previous to new issue.

The interest rate on my existing account has been raised to 1.52% but not 1.75% as far as I can see?

dubre wrote:The interest rate on my existing account has been raised to 1.52% but not 1.75% as far as I can see?

I opened an instant access account and received an email yesterday:

We've increased your interest rate – no action required

We're pleased to let you know that we've increased the interest rate on your Easy Access Account. You don't need to take any action, as this has been applied already.

Here are the details:

Previous Rate 1.51% Gross / 1.52% AER (variable/monthly)
New Rate 1.74% Gross / 1.75% AER (variable/monthly)

My account is called "Shawbrook Easy Access - Issue 29 Monthly" if that is any help.

dubre wrote:The interest rate on my existing account has been raised to 1.52% but not 1.75% as far as I can see?

The interest rate went from 1.40% to 1.52% mid July (14th I believe) and then up to 1.75% on 5-Aug. In both cases I checked my a/c the same day and saw that it had been increased, so if it hasn't happened for you I suggest you send them a secure message.

(Note that they send out an SMS text message on the day of the increase but the emailed announcement always goes out a week later, for some reason.)

Hi,

Another Shawbrook satisfied customer. Very easy to deal with and has been said , increases are just applied, you do nothing.
Another 'easy to deal with' is OakNorth Bank. Their Notice A/cs are good. When they release a new one with better interest you can just open it and transfer the balance from the old one (as long as it is the same amount of notice, say 90 days) without having to serve out the notice on the old one first. They respond quickly to email or use their mobile app.
https://www.oaknorth.co.uk/

Ray.

raybarrow wrote:Hi,

Another Shawbrook satisfied customer. Very easy to deal with and has been said , increases are just applied, you do nothing.
Another 'easy to deal with' is OakNorth Bank. Their Notice A/cs are good. When they release a new one with better interest you can just open it and transfer the balance from the old one (as long as it is the same amount of notice, say 90 days) without having to serve out the notice on the old one first. They respond quickly to email or use their mobile app.
https://www.oaknorth.co.uk/

Ray.

They're all finally realising that the old 'Only available to new customers' is not a good way to promote customer loyalty, though I doubt that concept actually exists any more. Nationwide were famous for these tricks!

Steve