All news on the topic: First Direct Ltd.

This week alone Barclays, Halifax, First Direct, Nationwide and Virgin Money have all announced changes to their home deals while last week HSBC, Yorkshire Building Society, and Santander also lowered mortgage rates

Banks offer switching incentives to entice customers into moving their cash to them however the pool of incentives has dried up a tad with another bank axing its switching offer

First Direct announced it was reducing rates across its entire range of repayment mortgages from tomorrow (January 5) with the biggest cut on its 10-year fixed rate mortgage

First Direct is paying new customers £175 to move their current account - in addition to this, you also get access to its linked regular saver which pays 7% interest

Christmas can be expensive but you don’t need to get into debt - in fact you could even make Christmas pay for itself

Martin Lewis, founder of MoneySavingExpert.com, has urged families to take advantage of bank switch deals - with many high street lenders paying £175 or £200 for new customers

Mortgage rates have been dropping over the last few months with major UK lenders now offering more mortgage products under 5%

NatWest saw the highest net switching gains (99,695) between July to September, while Santander recorded the highest net losses (-32,560) according to new data released today

The consumer group commissioned two surveys, one of more than 4,100 savers and another of more than 4,500 current account holders, to find out about their banking experiences

Consumer champion Martin Lewis is on a mission to save us money in the run-up to Christmas. And now he's revealed how to get your hands on some free cash

Nationwide Building Society and Skipton Building Society topped the results, both receiving overall scores of 78% - just pipping Yorkshire Building Society, which scored 75%

In the recent MSE newsletter, Martin Lewis' team told readers that there were just three banks left paying people to switch over to them - and another will be going after this Thursday

Among those already with a home loan, 27% have opted to make lump sum repayments to reduce their debt ahead of having to remortgage - and 13% have downsized to reduce their bills

From June 28 First Direct stop changing customers a non-sterling transaction fee as well as a non sterling cash fee so is now offering a "near perfect exchange rate".

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Switching banks has always been seen as a "quick and easy" way of making a little extra cash as banks usually offer an incentive for newbies to sign up and several banks have introduced new offers over the last few months

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The Money Saving Expert website said the bank had the “best” rating in its most recent money savers opinion poll and that it provided a pretty “decent” switching offer at the moment