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Current and savings accounts - introduction

Our bank accounts directory presents savings and current account offers from popular UK banks and other providers. Options include high interest, direct, childrens and online current and saving accounts.

Featured bank accounts

Alliance & Leicester Current Account

Manage your current account online with Alliance & Leicester, whose multi-award winning Premier Direct Current Account is supported by a dedicated switching team, to help you move banks with minimal hassle. The account has won awards for five years running for its credit and debit / overdraft interest rates.

Capital One Base Beater Savings

Guaranteed to beat the Bank of England's base rate until July 2010, the Capital One Base Beater Account is an easy access savings account for balances from just £1. It can be managed online 24/7, linked to up to three separate current accounts and pays interest monthly or annually.

Legal & General ISA

Legal & General’s wide selection of investments make it easy to find one that suits you. Choose from a range of ISA and unit trust funds and invest from just £500 lump sum or £50 a month.

More current and savings accounts

Alliance & Leicester Premier Account with Premier Regular Saver

The Premier current account from Alliance & Leicester comes with a range of benefits, including a linked deposit account - the Premier Regular Saver - which is available only to holders of the Premier account and offers exclusive features.

HSBC Bank Account

One of the UK's biggest and best known high street banks, HSBC offers free current account banking for personal customers, including 24/7 access to internet banking services for checking balances, paying bills and more. You can use phone banking and any of their many branches, too.

HSBC Bank Account Plus

The Bank Account Plus from HSBC offers additional benefits compared to the bank's standard current account, including world-wide family travel insurance, identity theft assistance, credit interest and preferential discounts or rates on other HSBC products. In return, there's a monthly subscription fee.

Citibank Current Account

Citibank's Sterling current account offers 24/7 access via the phone and online, including access to personal bankers. Citibank will gladly help you to transfer banks with minimal hassle using their Managed Account Transfer process.

The Children's Mutual

A trading name of the Tunbridge Wells Equitable Group which includes Tunbridge Wells Friendly Society, The Children's Mutual specialises in offering Child Trust Fund savings accounts for children. The organisation has been named "Best CTF Provider" for three years in a row by the UK's biggest selling monthly personal finance magazine.

Family Investments Child Trust Fund (CTF)

Child Trust Fund (CTF) vouchers issued by the Government must be invested in special accounts. A mutual organisation and the UK's leading CTF provider, Family Investments has been offering investments for families for over 30 years.