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Alliance and Leicester
The current easy access best buy cash ISA - the Flexible ISA from sister banks Alliance & Leicester and Santander - is closing its doors early for the 2009-10 tax year.
29 March 2010
Not one standard easy access savings account currently beats the rate of inflation. This means all savers with cash in one are losing money in real terms as their purchasing power is diminished.
2 March 2010
Complaints about financial firms to the independent Ombudsman Service were up by 18% during the second half of last year, after many banks and other providers wrongly rejected consumer gripes.
25 February 2010
Santander-owned Alliance & Leicester has launched a tax-free cash Isa at a market-leading 3.5% for easy access.
23 February 2010
Two million Barclays customers on fee-paying current accounts will see the cost of their overdraft hiked from April.
19 February 2010
The Abbey name will begin disappearing from the high street next week.
9 January 2010
Borrowers with a mortgage where the interest is calculated once a year could save hundreds of pounds by overpaying in the next two weeks, brokers insist.
15 December 2009
You can earn a £100 bonus by applying online for the Alliance & Leicester (A&L) Premier current account from Monday.
27 November 2009
Banks face tough questions from their trade body over the way they handle complaints from overdraft charges victims in hardship.
20 November 2009
Abbey's two million mortgage holders will be able to get a virtually fee-free current account from January, though it can be beaten.
19 November 2009
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