Egg Accounts

Just before Christmas 2002, I was reviewing my limited savings and decided they needed to be spruced up. They were languishing in various old bank accounts, which do not pay particularly high interest rates e.g. old student accounts. So, I thought I'd shop around on the internet. I took a look at Egg because they have become such a well-known, trusted bank. Most people will have heard of the Egg credit card (0% balance transfers for 6 months - "the card that loves you back") but they may not realise that Egg provides a whole range of standard financial products including mortgages, loans, ISAs ... more

It’s alright for all these banks offering you savings account with crap interest rates. I don’t have a great deal of money to invest in a savings account and it worked out that I would be getting about 0.4% interest on a savings account from my bank HSBC, which I was a little disappointed by, ok, a lot disappointed by! I trotted around the net, had a look on my two favourite sites, ciao and dooyoo and decided to go for an internet savings account against the likes of other banks and superstores. There isn’t a huge amount of choice in this field really, Smile, Cahoot and Egg ... more

I’m the first to admit I’m not a loyal customer when it comes to banks and always have more than a few accounts on the go. Considering the poor treatment account holders can expect from their bank, be it in the form of service, charges or interest rates I feel it best to be flexible about my saving and borrowing options. I have been with Egg since shortly after Prudential laid them a couple of years ago and initially opened account merely chasing the high interest rates. I have a telephone and Internet account which offers a lower rate of interest than the Internet only account but ... more

- Do you have access to the internet (I assume the answer to this is “yes” as you’re reading this online)? - Do you want to earn a good interest rate on your savings? - Do you want a guarantee that this rate will remain competitive? - Do you want a savings account that’s easy to use? - Do you want your savings to be safe with a name you can trust? If the answer to all those questions is “yes” I recommend that you open a savings account with Egg, which is owned by Prudential. They have an internet savings account, which currently pays 4% gross interest per annum (or 3.2% if you’re a basic rate ... more

It's true. Having already being a customer with Egg (I have already got their fab credit card) I decided to take a look at their savings accounts to see whether they offer a better account than the one I had. They did. First of all, you apply online and the process is very quick , with my application taking no longer than just 8 minutes. Questions are straight-forward which is good because i'm a bit thick!! There are several different types of accounts available, you just have to choose the account most suitable for you: *Internet Only - This means that your account is controlled by electronic ... more