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Premium Bonds customers are set to get a welcome New Year boost with an extra £80 million in prizes up for grabs from the January prize draw, with an increase to the prize fund rate from 2.20% to 3.00%. Alongside this, effective from today, NS&I has also increased interest rates across several of its other variable products.

The last Premium Bonds jackpot winners of 2022 come from the Scottish Highlands and Wandsworth The first winning Bond number drawn was 414XW486235 and belongs to a winner in the Scottish Highlands. The jackpot winner holds £45,000 in Premium Bonds and purchased the winning Bond in September 2020. The win makes them the first winner from the Scottish Highlands.

NS&I has won the award for ‘Most Improved Service’ in the ‘Cash Investments’ category at the Financial Adviser Service Awards, held at the Natural History Museum in London on 17 November. The awards are run by the Financial Times and are considered the benchmark for service standards within the financial advice marketplace. At this prestigious event it was also announced that NS&I received the biggest increase in votes from year to year.

This month’s Premium Bonds jackpot winners come from Hertfordshire and Essex. The first winning Bond number drawn was 460WE462342 and belongs to a winner in Hertfordshire. The jackpot winner holds £15,000 in Premium Bonds and purchased the winning Bond in June 2021. The win makes them the fifteenth jackpot winner from Hertfordshire.  The second winning Bond number drawn was 245PK699534 and the winner comes from Essex. The winner holds £25,253 in Premium Bonds and purchased their winning…

NS&I delivered £2.1 billion of Net Financing in Q2 2022-23, giving a half-year total of £3.4 billion. The figure is part of NS&I’s latest unaudited quarterly results for the second quarter (July-September 2022) of the financial year 2022-23. NS&I’s Net Financing target for 2022-23, set at the March 2022 Spring Statement, is unchanged, at £6 billion (+/- £3 billion). NS&I’s overall Net Financing performance for 2022-23 will be announced as part of its annual results in the…

More than 2.7 million savers are set to benefit as NS&I increases interest rates across its product range, with changes across its variable products effective from today (25 October 2022). The interest rate paid on Direct Saver and Income Bonds is now at the highest it has been in over a decade, with the rate on Direct ISA now at its highest level since February 2014.   NS&I has also increased the interest rate it pays on its Junior ISA and Investment Account.

This month’s Premium Bonds millionaire jackpot winners come from Outer London and Suffolk. October’s prize draw also saw an extra £79 million added to the prize pot, with the prize fund rate increasing from 1.40% to 2.20% – the biggest single increase in more than 40 years – and the odds improving from 24,500 to 1 to 24,000 to 1.

Millions of pounds more in Premium Bonds prizes will be up for grabs from next month as NS&I increases the prize fund rate from 1.40% to 2.20%, adding an expected £76 million to the prize fund for October. The changes will see the number of £5,000, £10,000, £25,000, £50,000 and £100,000 prizes almost double. There will also be 19 times as many £50 and £100 prizes paid out from October. The odds of each £1 Premium Bond number winning a prize will also improve from 24,500 to 1 to 24,000 to 1.

NS&I today announced that its Chief Executive, Ian Ackerley, has decided to step down in March 2023 at the end of his second three-year term running the organisation. Ian joined NS&I in 2017 after a successful career in the private sector.

September’s Premium Bonds jackpot winners come from Sefton and West Sussex. The first winning Bond number drawn was 409PT785413 and belongs to a winner in Sefton. The jackpot winner holds £50,000 in Premium Bonds and purchased the winning Bond in August 2020. The second winning Bond number drawn was 324MB318235 and the winner comes from West Sussex. The winner holds £50,000 in Premium Bonds and purchased their winning Bond in February 2018.