Say hello to Fixed Rate Savings šŸ”’

I’ve still got them

Weird. I think I’ve opened two already this year (though neither is still open)…not sure if there’s a limit?!

Yep, looks like there is

I’ve only got one open at the moment

Both of mine are closed though. Ah well, never mind.

I believe the limit is 2. Not sure if that becomes 6 if you have a joint account (2 personal each and 2 joint).

Edit - I have one personal Select pot and one joint Select pot and can open more.

Can you unarchive it?

Sadly no. Great idea though:

Maybe you are only allowed to create a maximum of 2 in a calendar year or something.

Ahh you’re right. I didn’t go that far. Strange there’s a button to unarchive it, even though you can’t.

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From the horse’s mouth:

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Im Sure there are. But if they’re taking the time and effort to move their savings…why would they not move to a better interest account?

Unless they’re already monzo customers. So its just a bit easier. And that doesnt feel great either. Monzo doing medium level interest rates for lazy customers…

Looks like rates have just been increased to 4.70%

That’s super annoying. It’s not applied to my existing pot and I suspect it won’t - but I couldn’t hang around to find out. Today is the last day of my 14 day cooling off period. So I closed the previous one, got the interest (cause it’s penalty free in the cooling off period) and opened a new one at the new rate. So now I have another 14 day cooling off period. Nice one :+1:

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That’s annoying.

As far as I can see in the T&Cs there is a 14 day cooling-off period for a Fixed Rate Cash ISA.

Does anyone know, if I take advantage of that (I’ve got 6 days left) would the withdrawal still be considered as part of the Flexible ISA contributions?

In other words, can I withdraw and then open a new 4.7% FR ISA and be in the same position regards contributions?

TIA

That’s exactly what I did. I am on my last day. It’s a flexible ISA wrapper around all your ISA pots. My limit remains unaffected

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Brilliant - thank you. I’ll get that sorted this evening.

Just completed this cooling-off closure and new account opening. Took less than a minute.

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I also moved my money from the 4.5 to the new 4.7. when I closed my 4.5 account and the money dropped in my current account I had a moment of panic - then remembered it is a flexible ISA and so I was able to move the money into the new 4.7 without impacting my ISA allowance!

To give credit to Monzo, this was a super easy process. Also the rate seems pretty decent l, I’ve looked around and you can get some 5+% fixed but they are locking you in for multiple years.

Now let’s hope Monzo don’t up the rate again because my list of archived accounts is growing!

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Hello @harrisonh. I noticed on the Fixed Rate page of Monzo.com that you are displaying the variable name instead of the variable value: