Article: Bank offers 5% lure on current accounts.(Business)

Article: Lloyds fights for its market share with 5pc current account; PERSONAL FINANCE.(Business)
The Birmingham Post (England);  August 30, 2008 ;     399 words ......of money in their current account with an interest...balances of up to pounds 7,000. It claims...interest paid on pounds 5,000 held in a current account was just 0.97 per...cent for balances of pounds 7,000. The account...

Article: New current account `aims to put U First'.(Your Money)
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  June 19, 2001 ;     428 words ......The packaged current account, called `U...monthly fee of pounds 6, customers...include: l pounds 250 interest...rates on your current account, personal loan...fluctuating current account balance, a pounds 1,000 agreed...

Article: Blanks fired in the current account battle
The Independent on Sunday;  June 19, 2005 ;     369 words ......claim per item is pounds 10 and you can't reclaim more than pounds 5,000 in a year...rejigged Premier current account, which offers...HSBC must pay pounds 19.95 a month...Bank Account Plus current account is also aimed...starting cost of pounds 9.95 a month...claims, ...

Article: Halifax turns up the heat in current account war.(Business)
The Birmingham Post (England);  February 3, 2007 ;     474 words ......interest rate and a pounds 100 sweetener...high interest current account would pay six...average British current account balance of around pounds 1,500. It said...must pay at least pounds 1,000 per month into the Halifax current account to qualify for...interest ...

Article: Current account bank charges; stocks and shares Business Today in 2 Minutes.(Business)
The Journal (Newcastle, England);  November 16, 2006 ;     44 words ...FIRST Direct is set to charge its customers for running a current account unless they pay in or keep a balance of at least pounds 1,500 a month. It is proposing to charge people who only have a current account a pounds 10 monthly fee, potentially affecting up to 195,000 customers.

Article: Your current account could cost you pounds 12k; Consumers are being ripped off by some banks, claim Which?(Features)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  July 19, 2005 ;     526 words ......around for a good current account. Consumers' association...made more than pounds 35billion last...changing providers.' Current account overdraft rates...to hundreds of pounds. Meanwhile, if...year for every pounds 1000 in your account...been voted Best Current ...

Article: How to flex your mortgage muscle Current account and offset mortgages can make your savings work harder, writes Samantha Downes - but onlyif you stay disciplined
The Sunday Telegraph London;  March 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ......thousands of pounds by opting for an offset or current account mortgage...their savings, current account and mortgage...mortgage of pounds 100,000 and...watch out for current account mortgages...maximum of pounds 500 a month...

Article: Your Money: LOST MIpounds pounds IONS; Your current account could be paying just 0.1%.(Business)
Sunday Mirror (London, England);  February 17, 2008 ;     454 words ......MELANIE WRIGHT CURRENT account holders are missing out on millions of pounds in interest. Many...base rate Abbey Current Account 8.00 pounds 1,000 Initial rate...Halifax/High Int Current Account 6.17 pounds 1,000 Initial rate...

Article: BUSINESS ANALYSIS: Lloyds banks on current account gamble Britain's biggest retail bank ups the ante but will its high street rivals have to follow suit?
The Independent - London;  February 4, 2003 ;     700+ words ......by unveiling a current account with a new, dramatically...for those paying pounds 2,000 a month...per cent of the current account market and were...cost it between pounds 50m and pounds...the ante in the current account market. HBOS led...strongly competitive ...

Article: Current account deficit cut to 667m pounds
The Independent - London;  June 25, 1994 ;     293 words ......Britain record its lowest current account deficit for seven years in...first appeared the case. The current account deficit fell to pounds 667m in the first quarter of the year, from pounds 2,054m in the previous quarter...contributed a surplus of pounds 2,011m, nearly ...

Article: RBS to offer current account mortgage
The Sunday Telegraph London;  January 21, 2001 ;     277 words ......one of the first current account mortgages. RBS...The move into current account mortgages comes...suggests, Virgin One's current account mortgage is a home...also operates as a current account. Borrowers pay...RBS, which has pounds 8bn in mortgage loans, says the ...

Article: Make the most from your current account Emma Lunn shows you how to work out which offers the best deal for your circumstances
The Sunday Telegraph London;  October 9, 2005 ;     700+ words ...COMPETITION in the current account market has never...and improved'' current account package offering...rates on offer, current account customers can...compare the various current account deals on offers...cent on its new current account, looks a clear...on ...

Article: Squash some bank charges and others rise up in their place As the watchdog prowls, current account customers suffer
The Independent on Sunday;  October 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ......justice - or otherwise - of pounds 30 penalties on current...estimated that the fees generate pounds 2bn a year. Although pounds 30 is an average, they can be as high as pounds 38 at NatWest for a bounced...halved late- payment fees to pounds 12, providers introduced...1 November, it ...

Article: Imports surge tips current account to deficit. (Egypt)
MEED Middle East Economic Digest;  November 29, 1996 ;     700+ words ......1995 resulted in Egypt recording its first current account deficit since 1989, figures published by...balance of payments statistics, which show a current account deficit of $125 million for the fiscal year...remittances) as the largest single source of current account proceeds. ...