Money Guide Ireland

AIB have finally decided to increase many of their mortgage rates. Allied Irish is the last Irish lender to raise mortgage rates - many others have already increased rates over the past 3 months because of higher borrowing costs between banks (The Credit Crunch as it has been called by the media). See our […]

If you didn’t take any notice of our last article about switching your mortgage to NIB - it could be too late for some of you. For many others the savings you could make will be reduced.
From May 12th - NIB (National Irish Bank) are increasing some of their rates on the “LTV” mortgage. […]

I always wonder about the motives behind some of the financial articles in the Irish Independent. Certain banks seem to be mentioned more than others. I often wonder if the articles are unbiased - or are they a thinly disguided advert?
Take an article in todays Indo by by Charlie Weston about high interest current accounts. […]

In Ireland it hasn’t been that long since all the main Banks charged us for the privelige of looking after out hard earned money. Some of them still do! Last year a trend was started by Halifax of paying fairly good interest rates on current accounts.
Halifax are still the highest interest on current accounts […]

A few weeks after the expiry of their 7% regular saver - AIB have launched another regular savings account. The interest rate is a variable rate of 7.30% A.E.R on monthly savings.
The rate will be available to all new accounts opened between the 19th February 2008 and the 19th February 2009. From the […]