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+1 for First Direct, but don't take my word for it: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/banking/compare-best-bank-accounts http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/banking

• rjknight 14y ago
  Ditto. I had actually decided to move away from Natwest before this outage - as part of RBS acquiring some bank branches from one of the other bankrupt banks, the EU competition authorities forced them to sell some of their accounts to Santander, and they thought it would be a good idea to sell half of my accounts (business and personal credit card) whilst retaining the other half (personal, savings and joint account). Given that I would crawl over broken glass rather than use Santander, this prompted me to think about alternatives and duly switch my personal banking to First Direct (which took a matter of minutes and has worked perfectly), and my business banking will go to either HSBC or Barclays (under consideration because Barclays offer data feeds which I can pipe directly into FreeAgent).
  • geden 14y ago
    Ditto the Ditto - but note that Note all Barclays account are available for feed into FreeAgent. My Business Account was not. Had a hilarious few days speaking to various Barclays people who didn't know the service existed, or that Barclays even had a Data Services division.