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Post by everso on Nov 11, 2010 11:56:47 GMT
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Post by Patrick on Nov 11, 2010 12:04:24 GMT
They started to do it (as I remember) when the Building Societies moved into the current account market. So Nationwide's Flexaccount was one of the first to offer interest on a "Current Account". Sadly, Nationwide have just stopped this themselves in the past year. I had my first Building Society Account in 1981 - The Anglia "Junior Saver" Account. They gave you ten pounds on your birthday back then - as well as interest! When I out grew that it became an ordinary Saver Account. Then the Nationwide gobbled up the Anglia and all Ordinary Savings Accounts were converted into "Flexaccounts" with a cheque book and card instead of the old passbook. So the current account with interest was born, in about 1987.
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Post by housesparrow on Nov 11, 2010 12:52:47 GMT
My bank gives free travel insurance, which is useful.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2010 13:55:13 GMT
whilst in my local Halifax branch the other day ( i have a sort of 'secondary' account with them, they mentioned i could receive £50 if i switched my current account (alliance and leicester) to them. i spoke to a fellow about it, but the more he explained, it just looked to me as if they had many more fantastical complicated trickery to land me in debt or get charged if i werent careful, and im rarely careful.. i aint a careful sort of chasp. so i declined, telling the bank fellow that i was getting a sense of impending financial disaster, and thanked him for his time and left. it felt like a carrot being dangled over a huge pit loosely covered with grass and twigs.
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