{"id":139,"date":"2016-10-26T06:24:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T06:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prudent-pete.onfocus.co.uk\/?p=139"},"modified":"2016-10-26T06:24:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T06:24:40","slug":"santander-slash-interest-on-its-123-current-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/santander-slash-interest-on-its-123-current-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Santander slash interest on its 123 current account"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"story-body__h1\">Santander bank to cut interest rates on the popular 123 current account<\/h1>\n<p>The bank of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santander.co.uk\/\">Santander<\/a> attracted millions of new customers with its offer of interest of up to 3% on the 123 current account, but now the bank is set to cut these interests rates to 1.50% AER on 1st November 2016.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>From 1 November 2016, the 1|2|3 Current Account will pay 1.50% AER \/ 1.49% monthly gross (variable) on balances up to \u00a320,000, including on balances below \u00a31,000. No interest is earned on balances above \u00a320,000.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This latest cut follows on from when I reported the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/santander-to-hike-fee-on-the-123-current-account\/\">hike in its fee last January on the popular account<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>I will now have a look and see what\u2019s else is out there for all fellow Prudent Petes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santander bank to cut interest rates on the popular 123 current account The bank of Santander attracted millions of new customers with its offer of interest of up to 3% on the 123 current&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money-saving-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}