{"id":758263,"date":"2026-07-12T09:07:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T09:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/758263\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T09:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T09:07:33","slug":"i-run-the-uks-biggest-bank-here-are-five-ways-to-manage-your-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/758263\/","title":{"rendered":"I run the UK&#8217;s biggest bank, here are five ways to manage your money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nunn says the key to building up savings is to automate putting money aside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This means regular saving will stop being a decision or action you have to keep taking &#8211; and putting off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you&#8217;re able to carve out a little bit and put it somewhere else where you won&#8217;t have access to it and be able to spend it, I think that&#8217;s the easiest way to start having a saving mindset,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That could mean setting up a standing order from your current account to a savings account, organising cash into different envelopes or using round-up tools that put spare change aside when you spend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nunn recommends &#8220;saving little, saving early and saving regularly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He admits he &#8220;hates budgeting and always has&#8221; so he says he looks at his current account as soon as he gets paid and decides how much he wants to move into savings. &#8220;Do it as soon as you can,&#8221; he adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as savings, he recommends having an emergency fund for surprise bills like a broken boiler or car repairs. How much you need in the fund depends on your circumstances but he advises having one to three months&#8217; salary set aside if you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nunn says the key to building up savings is to automate putting money aside. This means regular saving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,147,530],"class_list":["post-758263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}