Barclays have changed to free S&S ISA fees.

[Jon39]

This was a surprise.

Barclays took over the Sharelink business and for years kept the same fees and customer admin system.
Everything was satisfactory.

I forget when, but a number of years ago, they announced 'improvements'. Always a dangerous word to use.
What they really meant was, their fee cap was removed completely, customer service was relocated and a shambles occurred.
There was a topic here at the time.
Many customers moved away quickly, but I gave them time, although eventually moved too.

Something has clearly now made them have a rethink, so free fees might be of interest to some here.

Remember though, that NatWest also ran free fees for a while, but after a few years, they entirely closed their ISA operation, which I think was based in Bristol.

Edited by Jon39 on Thursday 11th June 14:03

[C69]

It looks like Barclays has adopted the Scottish Widows model: no platform fee, and zero dealing fees for regular investing.

There are dealing fees for one-off transactions, though (£6 Barclays / £5 Scottish Widows). Whether or not those amounts are significant depends on the size and frequency of such trades, of course.

[butchstewie]

Suspect between the likes of 212 for smaller accounts and II and IWEB/Scottish Widows quite a lot of platforms are having to adapt or see outflows.