Please note: Abbey International has a minimum balance entry requirement of £50,000 (or currency equivalent) across our portfolio of products. The minimum balance amount can be spread across a range of accounts, subject to the minimum opening deposit for each account being met.
Everyday Banking Accounts
Offshore Gold account and deferred-debit cards
This offshore current account gives you all the flexibility you need to manage your money easily, efficiently and with instant access. Your account can be in sterling, euro or US dollars, earning an attractive variable rate of interest paid gross. The higher your balance, the higher the rate.We also have a range of cards available to acompany our Gold account. Find out more about our Gold account and deferred-debit cards.
Offshore Call account
This offshore currency account is available in sterling, euro or US dollar currencies, all offering competitive variable interest rates, and with unlimited access as no notice is required for withdrawals. Find out more about our Call account.
Savings Accounts
Offshore Instant Access Savings account
If you have £3,000 or more to deposit in this instant access offshore savings account, you can make up to six penalty-free withdrawals in a year and choose whether to have your interest paid annually or monthly. Find out more about our Instant Access Savings account.
Offshore Notice account
If you can give advance notice of a withdrawal, you'll be rewarded with higher rates of interest. The longer the notice period, the higher the interest you'll earn. You have a choice of three notice periods for these sterling savings accounts: 30, 90 and 180 days. Find out more about our Notice accounts.
Offshore Base Rate Tracker account
If you have £10,000 or more to deposit, we have a range of 90 day, 180 day and term accounts, which offer attractive rates of interest. Whichever account you choose, the interest rate will move in line with the Bank of England base rate. Find out more about our Base Rate Tracker accounts.
Monthly Offshore Saver
Our offshore regular savings account is a great way to combine the flexibility of Abbey International's offshore Gold current account, with the high returns of a 1-year fixed rate savings account. This innovative combination of an offshore current account and offshore savings account means you can spend the way you want, while at the same time, save the way you should. Find out more about our Monthly Offshore Saver.
Offshore Fixed Deposit contract
We can offer you a fixed rate offshore deposit service in sterling, euro or US dollars if you're in a position to leave your money untouched for a set period. Your interest rate is guaranteed to stay the same throughout your chosen term. Find out more about our Fixed Deposit contracts.
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The property price statistics currently include data from 40 countries, and are available at different frequencies. The data differ significantly from country to country, for instance in terms of sources of information on prices, type of property, area covered, property vintage, priced unit, detailed compilation methods and seasonal adjustment. This reflects two facts. Firstly, that the processes associated with buying and selling a property and hence data available, vary between countries and secondly, that there are currently no specific international standards for property price statistics. However, Eurostat is taking the lead in drafting a Handbook on Residential Property Price Indices under the aegis of the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Price Statistics. This handbook will give recommendations on best practice for compiling residential property price indices and will present these in the context of the different user needs for such indices. A draft of the Handbook is available for public comment. The Handbook builds on work undertaken at a number of international meetings over recent years to identify the requirements for improved data on property prices from an economic, monetary and financial stability perspective.
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On 24-25 June 2010, the BIS held its Ninth Annual Conference, on "The future of central banking under post-crisis mandates" in Lucerne, Switzerland. The event brought together senior representatives of central banks and academic institutions who exchanged views on this topic. This volume contains the opening address by Stephen Cecchetti (Economic Adviser, BIS), a keynote address by Baron Alexandre Lamfalussy, and the contributions of the policy panel on "Do central bank governance arrangements need to be altered?". The participants in the policy panel discussion, chaired by Jaime Caruana (General Manager, BIS), were Mark Carney (Bank of Canada), Andrew Crockett (JPMorgan Chase International), Stefan Ingves (Sveriges Riksbank), Lucas Papademos (former Vice-President, ECB) and Duvvuri Subbarao (Reserve Bank of India). The papers presented at the conference and the discussants' comments were released as BIS Working Papers 326 to 331.
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