Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank’s merger with Virgin money cuts your savings safety net 

Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank’s merger with Virgin money cuts your savings safety net By Sylvia Morris For The Daily Mail Published: 22:54 BST, 4 June 2019 | Updated: 09:22 BST, 5 June 2019 Savers with Virgin Money, Yorkshire Bank and Clydesdale Bank face changes to their compensation limits later this year. Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank … Read more

Cashless society? Fine… until you lose your wallet as our Personal Finance editor found out

All too easy: The banks are relentlessly pursuing an agenda to take us away from using cash but it doesn’t work for everyone Slowly but surely, like a Number 9 bus, we are moving towards a cashless society where plastic and payment apps rule. Move over bank and building society branches run by tellers with friendly … Read more

The communities in fear of being pushed towards a cashless society

‘The only banks left in Hebden Bridge are grass ones down by the river’: The communities in fear of being pushed towards a cashless society Hebden Bridge is a busy market town – but it has no banks Lloyds closed earlier this year at the same time ripping out the last cash machine Banks claim … Read more

How just £50 a month will give your grandchild an £18,000 gift on their 18th birthday 

The Government raised the annual allowance for youngsters for this new tax year It is a sign of the times that when a new child is born, many parents and grandparents start thinking immediately about how they can help the little one face the big financial challenges that await them. These hurdles may be some … Read more

Top rates on simple easy-access deals accounts are vanishing as the accounts become more popular

Top rates on simple easy-access deals accounts are vanishing as the accounts become more popular By Sylvia Morris For The Daily Mail Published: 23:22 BST, 9 April 2019 | Updated: 09:23 BST, 10 April 2019 Savers paid £5.4 billion into easy-access accounts in the first two months of 2019 Simple easy-access accounts paying top rates … Read more