Child & Co RBS Branch to close

[Deleted User]

Child and Co isn’t closed. You can sign up for an account. You can go to the form and open an account at 15-80-00.

You have posted the false claim several times.

WillPS

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WillPS said:

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Marchitiello said:

Yes, I meant England (edited my post) and just for clarity, Drummonds does not allow new account applications in Branch, it all needs to be done online now, and the accounts are effectively managed by the central operations anyway for all RBS/NatWest accounts, unless you have been assigned a personal/premier banker,  so as per their official Statement, the only operating branch/brands will remain Drummonds, Holts and Child & Co (the address name changed to Victoria (B) does not mean that the branch is closed to new business (in that respect all the three brands/branches are, as if they remove the branch selector form we have discussed several times on this forum, and you open an account online from anywhere in England, you will be assigned a virtual sort code.

I think you'll find that the Drummonds and Holts branches are open to new business. Drummonds may direct a non-HNW person online as they're very short staffed in branch.

Obviously, neither Fleet Street or Victoria branches now exist to serve as home to Childs customers. They are now housed and  run from a Manchester service centre. 

Effectively closed to new business, doesn't mean a hard stop. The main group brands are now actively marketed along geographic lines. 

They've not actively marketed Child & Co in decades. They never had a web presence, for example.

Ultimately I'm not really sure what the issue is here. They are slightly rebranded RBS products, many users including myself (and my fiancée) earn a few quid a month off them. There's no risk that these accounts will end up being closed because the debit cards currently say a different brand on them. Nobody is expecting anything other than a cool card.

There's nothing to stop any brand on any card disappearing, as the customers of Abbey, Alliance & Leicester, Yorkshire Bank, Clydesdale Bank, Northern Bank, Williams & Glyn, Martins etc etc will tell you.

I couldn't care less and this is frankly getting boring.
I simply pointed out that Child & Co was closed to new business whilst (for the time being) Holts and Drummonds aren't. 

Perhaps stop clogging up this thread with this nonsense then; with respect I don't think anybody in this thread will be shocked to find there is no longer a shopfront on Fleet Street.

WillPS

IanManc said:

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IanManc said:

Deleted_User said:

I think you'll find that the Drummonds and Holts branches are open to new business. Drummonds may direct a non-HNW person online as they're very short staffed in branch.

Obviously, neither Fleet Street or Victoria branches now exist to serve as home to Childs customers. They are now housed and  run from a Manchester service centre. 

Effectively closed to new business, doesn't mean a hard stop. The main group brands are now actively marketed along geographic lines. 

Although a Manchester "branch address" is stated on online Child & Co statements, the address given at Hardman Square in Manchester is actually a NatWest Group corporate office and there is no branch there. Child & Co accounts are actually "run from" the service centre in Chatham in Kent, just like they were when the Fleet Street branch was open. 

You keep on saying that Child & Co is "closed to new business" despite the fact that you have no special knowledge on the topic, and the fact that forum members here have repeatedly posted about having opened new Child & Co accounts since the Fleet Street branch closed.

Maybe you should stop posting your assumptions as if they were fact.

Maybe you should stop posting your assumptions.

I actually think that in the RBS/NatWest reshuffle, the three brands/branch left operating in the UK being only Child & Co, Drummonds and Holts, and the confirmation that the Child brand will live on as a Virtual branch, 

Another other poster referred to a 'virtual branch' that simply doesn't exist and I never said the Manchester location is a branch; it's just a group admin office.  Closed to new business is accurate as the branch is closed & 

accounts won't be opened barring a questionable legacy form or already having an account at that sort code.

You say that "accounts won't be opened barring a questionable legacy form or already having an account at that sort code" but that is another assumption of yours which is not true. For example, friends of mine have a son who is a newly qualified barrister and he has opened an account with Child & Co as a new customer, arranged through his Inn of Court which has banked with Child & Co for centuries. Child & Co has a long history of providing legal services for Inns of Court, chambers, law firms and individual lawyers and is still actively doing so. Your assumptions that "accounts won't be opened barring a questionable legacy form or already having an account at that sort code"  and that Child & Co is "closed to new business" are wrong.

This is really interesting, thank you for sharing.

gary1312

IanManc said:

 friends of mine have a son who is a newly qualified barrister and he has opened an account with Child & Co as a new customer, arranged through his Inn of Court which has banked with Child & Co for centuries. Child & Co has a long history of providing legal services for Inns of Court, chambers, law firms and individual lawyers and is still actively doing so. 

I'd be interested to know if said gentleman's account is simply a Reward/Select with flashy stationery, as is the case for all of us here, or if it's a more personalised private banking service in a similar way to Drummonds with their private banking for lotto winners?

gary1312

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 Closed to new business is accurate as the branch is closed & accounts won't be opened barring a questionable legacy form or already having an account at that sort code. 

Nothing questionable about the form, it's freely available on the RBS website, unlike legacy forms which are not. Closed to new business is inaccurate, I hold four accounts with the Child brand, all opened in the past month. Two of them were opened with the "questionable legacy form" which none of the RBS employees I've had contact with since seemed to find remotely questionable.

[Deleted User]

Yes really interesting to hear about the clients that still use Child, according to wiki there used to be a mini branch at Oxford I think some time ago.

gary1312

Have to say I'm much more impressed with the Drummonds card in the flesh as it were. Received the Drummonds/Child chequebooks today, also very impressed with the Drummonds design:

[Deleted User]

The cheques do look good, shame about the card. I have to say since the switch to Mastercard both Child and Drummonds cards seem to me made more cheaply. Although I never handled a Drummonds card in the flesh. I showed the cards to a friend who was not impressed and said they "looked like normal cards"!

Marchitiello

As a data point, we had three Drummonds cards in the family from when these were still Visa cards and all had still more then 1 or 2 years before expire on them, and today we have received three replacement MasterCard version, so they are now proactively pulling out of the Visa network for all version of RBS cards. As a side note, the Visa version had much more sparkling into it that the current MasterCard has. 

WillPS

Marchitiello said:

As a data point, we had three Drummonds cards in the family from when these were still Visa cards and all had still more then 1 or 2 years before expire on them, and today we have received three replacement MasterCard version, so they are now proactively pulling out of the Visa network for all version of RBS cards. As a side note, the Visa version had much more sparkling into it that the current MasterCard has. 

Have your Child's Visas been swapped too then? My fiancée and I have 4 of them between us but no sign of being moved to Mastercard just yet.

My longstanding Natwest is still Visa too.