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If the interest rate on your easy access savings account or ISA falls you could soon be sent an email or text alert, under plans set out by the financial regulator.

Halifax has cut the interest rate of its Help to Buy ISA from 4% to 2.5% for new customers – but if you already have one, you can breathe a sigh of relief as existing customers won't be affected by the change.

Only two peer-to-peer lending platforms out of 94 are currently able of offer the new Innovative Finance ISA following its launch this week, as rigorous checks by the regulator have held up the approval process.

The new tax year starts today, and while in the past the cheers were for the new ISA allocation, today it's time to pop open the champagne for a huge change that means for all but bigger savers an ISA now holds little point.

Chancellor George Osborne has unveiled a new Lifetime ISA for the under-40s which will pay savers a 25% bonus on up to £4,000 saved per tax year.

Savers will be able to save £20,000 a year in an ISA from April 2017, Chancellor George Osborne announced in today's Budget.

A MoneySaving couple from Colchester have told how they became two of the first people in the country to benefit from the Help to Buy ISA scheme after exchanging contracts on a house.

First-time buyers will be able to save into one of the Government's Help to Buy ISAs from today as competition to offer attractive rates heats up.