Interest paid on fixed-rate bond is edging higher as new banks leapfrog each other to attract savers. Both RCI and Charter Savings now pay 2.06% fixed for a year.

It's not often you get some of Britain's leading actors, actresses and media luvvies to gather outside a bank branch, but that is what happened in South West London, as star names battle Barclays.

Vernon Hill is the founder of challenger bank Metro which celebrates its fifth anniversary on Wednesday. He made his money turning start-up Commerce Bank into a top 20 American bank.

Barclays lost a net 98,400 customers who used the seven day service in 2014 to jump ship to a rival, making it the biggest banking loser.

First it was the fixed-rate savings battle. Now providers are fighting it out to top the easy-access table after RCI Bank boosted its rate for new and existing customers to 1.65%.

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Expats in certain countries across the globe have been told to have at least £100,000 in their Barclays accounts, or have their accounts closed within months, This is Money can reveal.

Even though you've been able to inherit the allowance for three months, many of Britain's biggest banks and building societies have failed to offer accounts for this money.

The British Bankers' Association, working with the Building Societies Association, will work on developing Money Mail's proposal for a 'Tell Us Once' service that would help bereaved relatives.

More than one billion contactless transactions worth €12.6billion took place in Europe over the last 12 months, according to Visa Europe.

Charter Savings Bank, which opened for business earlier in the year, has nudged the rate on its 12-month fix to 2.06 per cent, putting it back at the top of the independent This is Money tables.

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