Money

I opened a new savings account this week.  Nothing particularly special about that - I just wanted some of my money to earn a bit more interest, certainly compared to where the money was in my current account.  But which bank did I go with?  Well I guess I was feeling a bit patriotic, because I plumped for Barclays - one of the UK's "big 4" and a British institution (after all, this is the company that only happens to sponsor the Premier League).  It's a place that I've never invested any money with before, even when I lived in the UK.  But their (US) savings account offered a competitive interest rate, and it appealed more than any of the other banks that I had never heard of with similar accounts.  I don't think they have a big presence in the US (26th in a list of largest banks in the US that I saw on Wikipedia), and I don't imagine that's going to change much under the current "America First" administration.