High street bank Santander set to make yet more changes to perks on its 123 accounts – the latest in a string of cuts By Laura Shannon, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 24 October 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 24 October 2020 High street bank Santander will make yet more changes to perks … Read more
Santander extends branch opening hours after we told how banks were failing on service after lockdown eased By Miles Dilworth For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 1 September 2020 | Updated: 22:37 BST, 1 September 2020 Santander branches will be open from 9.30am until 4.30pm on Monday to Friday as of September 7 Santander … Read more
Hundreds of thousands of customers of Barclays and Santander have taken payment holidays on credit cards, personal loans and mortgages, the banks revealed in results today. At the same time, official figures from the Bank of England show households have cleared billions of pounds of debt over the last few months. Britain’s third-largest mortgage lender … Read more
Hundreds of thousands of customers of Barclays and Santander have taken payment holidays on credit cards, personal loans and mortgages, the banks revealed in results today. At the same time, official figures from the Bank of England show households have cleared billions of pounds of debt over the last few months. Britain’s third-largest mortgage lender … Read more
Santander doubles the account fee for its Lite current account customers and slashes cashback perk for phone, internet and TV bills In October Santander’s cashback for 123 and 123 Lite accounts will change The monthly fee for the 123 Lite account will double from £1 to £2 Santander says changes are the result of the … Read more
Tony Hetherington is Financial Mail on Sunday’s ace investigator, fighting readers corners, revealing the truth that lies behind closed doors and winning victories for those who have been left out-of-pocket. Find out how to contact him below. P.H. writes: We sold a property in Spain. The proceeds were transferred to us here in the UK, … Read more
It is one of the most iconic scenes in Oscar-winning financial film The Big Short. Actress and model Margot Robbie pops up in a bubble bath with a glass of champagne to explain, in plain English, the world of subprime mortgage-backed securities, which helped trigger the financial crisis more than a decade ago. Now, in … Read more
Santander has become the latest bank to be dragged into a multimillion-pound lawsuit over alleged tax avoidance schemes used by wealthy celebrities. The Spanish bank is to be sued over the Imagine film-financing scheme that was part-funded by Alliance & Leicester, which it acquired at the height of the financial crisis. It is claimed investors … Read more
Santander reveals 240,000 of its customers are on mortgage and credit card holidays – with savings rates and 123 account due to be cut 206,000 mortgage borrowers had been given holidays Meanwhile 15,000 credit card and 18,600 loan borrowers had paused payments The £32.4bn of mortgages having payments paused was 19% of its lending The … Read more
Santander unleashes another 123 current account rate cut on the SAME DAY another one bites, costing customers hundreds of pounds in lost interest Santander today cut the interest rate on 123 accounts from 1.5% to 1% It has handed savers more bad news with a cut to 0.6% in August Savers with £20,000 in the … Read more