Personal and business bank account providers do their best to keep their customers on their toes – even as some make their offerings better, others get worse.
£5 notes to begin appearing in ATMs
The currently scarce £5 note is set to begin re-establishing itself in the purses and wallets of the UK after a recent announcement that all building societies and banking institutions will begin dispensing them from their ATMs in the near future.
HSBC sends mixed message to small business bank accounts
In the wake of its announcement of a massive £7bn in half-year profits, HSBC provoked responses of outrage from many owners of small business bank accounts last week who feel the worldwide banking conglomerate is neither lending nor listening to them.
Nationwide to charge fees to cardholders abroad
Nationwide, the UK’s largest building society, has announced that it will begin as of November 1 to charge fees of £1 on ATM cash withdrawals in addition to a 2 per cent commission on all foreign transactions.