Cahoot Savings
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| Company: | Cahoot www.cahoot.com | Cahoot www.cahoot.com | |
| Product: | 12 Month Bond Issue 1 | Savings Account | |
| details | details | ||
| Apply via this site: | Not available | Not available | |
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| Savings Details | |||
 Account Type: | Term | Instant Access | |
| Rate Type: | fixed | variable | |
| Headline Interest Rate: | 7.01% | 6.55% | |
| Application Criteria | |||
| Existing Customer Only: | no | no | |
| Minimum Age: | 21 | 21 | |
| Restricted Availability: | no | no | |
| Area Restrictions: | none | none | |
| Minimum Investment: | £1000.00 | £1.00 | |
| Maximum Investment: | £250,000 | £2,000,000 | |
| Minimum Balance: | £1000.00 | £0.00 | |
| Introductory Rates | |||
| Introductory Bonus: | 0% | 0% | |
| Incentives Offered: | no | no | |
| Rates | |||
| Tax Free: | no | no | |
| Open-ended Bonus: | 0% | 0% | |
| Rate Tiers: | no | yes | |
| Fixed Term: | 16/07/2009 | n/a | |
| Fixed Term in Months: | 12 | n/a | |
| Fixed Interest Rate: | yes | n/a | |
| Term Date: | 16 Jul 2009 | n/a | |
| Fixed Rate Period: | 16/07/2009 | n/a | |
| Interest Payment Freq: | maturity | choice | |
| Managing Account | |||
| Instant: | n/a | no | |
| Passbook: | no | no | |
| Transactions at Branch: | no | on-line | |
| Transactions at Branch: | no | on-line | |
| Transactions by Phone: | no | no | |
| Transactions by Internet: | yes | yes | |
| Transactions by Post: | no | no | |
| Special Access: | yes | no | |
| Withdrawal Conditions: | yes | no | |
| Closure Before Maturity: | yes | n/a | |
| Transferred on Maturity: | instant access | n/a | |
| Fees & Charges | |||
| Penalty on all Wdls: | n/a | no | |
| Withdrawal Notice: | term | n/a | |
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Best-buy Rates Improve as 'Savings War' Continues
The "savings war" is in full swing, with providers offering ever-more-generous rates for their instant-access accounts.
According to new research from cahoot, the average best-buy account now offers a rate of 6.51 percent, comparing very favourably with the Bank of England's five percent base rate. This figure becomes all the more impressive when compared with last summer - when best-buys stood at 6.27 percent compared with a base rate of 5.75 percent.
The ongoing credit crunch is a major factor behind these generous offers. Banks who have been hit by dropping mortgage incomes and multi-billion asset writedowns reacting to the financial crisis are looking to boost their revenues, and gaining extra savings deposits represents a good way of doing this.
Accordingly, a "savings war" has been declared, with firms attempting to outdo each other with ever-higher best-buy rates. Top paying accounts have even topped seven percent in some instances - more than two percent above the base rate.
Savers' choice has also drastically improved over the past 12 months, cahoot said. Last year, just 490 accounts were on offer in the UK, while currently there are 1,503 on the market.
Matthew Timms, managing director, cahoot commented: "Few of us will be celebrating the anniversary of the credit crunch but it's clear that savers have been the winners with rates hitting the seven percent mark in recent months."
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