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Nat West can’t find account
My son has an account with Nat West which he took out as a student several years ago. He has an outstanding debt of £2000 on the account, which he wants to clear. He doesn’t have the account details so can’t pay it off and Nat West can’t find it either. They told him to use mylostaccount to find his account and this hasn’t…
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Halifax bank repeatedly declining payment
My ancient iPad is coming to the end now, so I saved up enough money for a new one and placed the order with Apple. Only problem is, Halifax declined the payment. I contacted Halifax, and they said something about daily limits, only I have actually spent over that amount in the past. They suggested I buy a cheaper iPad. So…
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Co-op Bank registration for online banking.
Applied for a current account with the co-op. Was accepted, and got 2 emails plus one today with the account number and sort code. Nothing by post yet. What is the process now for the registration for online banking. The Co-op app. Is asking about a Username, Password and 6 digit security code. How are these set up?…
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Current Account Switching Service
I had cause to write to CASS about a suggestion that I felt worthwhile. Their reply was that they do not operate the switching service. Their role is to advertise and give advice. This normally means referring you to one of the switching banks. I therefore do not know who to approach with my suggestion which is:- The bank…
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Barclays bank put account under investigation
Hi All I am wondering if anyone can help me. 3 weeks ago Barclays put my account into investigation and have put a block on all my cards and online banking. i have banked with them for over 10 years, pay in lot of money from my employer ( through BACS and from their official account) and have not had any issues. Have a…
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Revolut UK transferred funds to HSBC UK (DEBIT) charged a fee
I transferred £15 to my friend from my revolut card UK to her HSBC UK debit account. However she only got £14.83. and it seems like HSBC UK took a fee. Why is this?
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RBS - Closed my account and held funds during switching - Help!
So like many other people I saw the RBS/Natwest £200 switch offer last week and decided to have a go as ive never done a switch before. I opened a RBS account on the Tuesday and passed all the credit checks etc inc the 3rd party Hooyou one. All was good and had various SMS and Email over the next few days saying my account…
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Banking and nationality
Say someone was born in the UK and always lived here, with British nationality and no dual nationality. Then at some point, in adulthood, they choose to apply to gain French nationality (through family links making this possible) to become a dual national, even though they intend, probably, to remain resident in the UK. If…
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Best/cheapest way to transfer larger sum for buying property abroad.
Hi all! My good friend is looking to buy a property with her BF in Portugal and she asked me if her Revolut is the best way to transfer a large lump sum to pay for her part. Not sure how much exactly, but let's say £50,000 . I think Wise might be a tiny bit cheaper, but aren't there some brokers who specialise in this kind…
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Complicated third party payment process with First Direct - same for all banks?
Hi I wanted to transfer some money to my Wise account from my FD current account. It gives the option to pay with the app using a QR code or else via the desktop. Thinking it would be easy via the app, it then entered an extremely complicated process where I had to manually login to FD using a username and a security code…
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Paying coins in
I know this comes up a lot and after building up quite a substantial amount of coins at home it's time to pay it in. I had thought it was going to take me 6 trips to the bank with a 10 bag limit, however after asking at our local friendly post office they will allow me to pay in over £500 in one go. They did advise a time…
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Advice on Sending Money to the US
Apologies if this is not the correct part of the forum to post this but I want to send some money to an organisation in the US and the choices are PayPal, debit/credit card (not using PayPal) or bank transfer. For a bank transfer it says they use Stripe but I've no idea what it is. What would be the cheapest way for me to…
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Club Lloyds Basic switcher link, so easy to miss
I'm trying to take advantage of the Club Lloyds switcher bonus of £175. There are 3 levels of club Lloyds accounts* Club Lloyds * Club Lloyds Silver * Club Lloyds Platinum The latter 2 charge a £10 & £21/month fee respectively. I'm trying to choose option 1 but the Llyods website won't let me as the first option (basic)…
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Nationwide App Update - Photo Needed
My Nationwide App recently updated to the new version. I had heard that the main benefit of the update was that the card reader was no longer going to be needed. However what I didn't realise is that they require a photo for security purposes, in order to eliminate the use of the card reader. I hesitated about this, not…
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Switching from Chase
I read on here Chase is good to create an account to switch for switch bonuses as you can create multiple accounts with them. But I wanted to check that when you switch it just closes that specific account with Chase and not the original main account?
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Income protection
If I move to a job that does not offer occupational sick pay and only SSP, what is the best way to protect my income to be able to have more income should I need time off sick? Hopefully that makes sense?
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Transaction list, what does it mean?
When some card transactions are in block capitals and others are in normal lowercase English?
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Closed bank account
Clever people of the net please help! My 19 yr old son has had his Monzo account closed. He said they had sent him a couple of messages but thought they were nothing important so ignored them!!!! We have sent numerous messages to Monzo but apparently they do not need to say why his account has been closed. He is unable to…
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1st Direct regular saver maturity
Hi everyone, hope your all well. I have a question re 1st direct regular saver, mine has matured the last few days and i have my interest. I have one first account which funded the save and i have the save account, my problem is noo matter how hard i look i cannot find an option to move the cash out of the save account nor…
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Nationwide Banking App Update
My partner and I have had Nationwide accounts for over 30 years including a mortgage, current account, savings and credit card. We've always used the banking app on our mobile phones and can see all our accounts regardless of who's name they are in. Last night my husband's app updated to the new version and he now cannot…
