Nationwide rebranding

Lions_89

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Lions_89 said:

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Lions_89 said:

I have always liked the hsbc lion, it’s a shame the bank does not make use of this icon in the UK as it does in other markets. For people interested in branding there is a whole thread on the monzo boards somewhere dedicated to bank branding and their cards!

https://media.nationwide.com/bolt/versions/5.4.1/bolt-logo-nw-horizontal-full.svg

The Ohio based Nationwide is nothing to do with the one in Swindon - that's probably why they didn't usurp their logo in the 'UK branch'

I’m aware of that, I just put it there to show the brand 🤭 I do think even the US one is better than the new uk one.

I think it looks like a reject from Barclays as they use an eagle already.

I do like the Barclay eagle. Shame about the bank. I have tried to bank with them several times and had various issues with the service. 

Milarky

WAAA WAAAA WAAAA! is my reaction. 

someone

Everything feels a little disorganised. My god that TV ad, to think a "bank or building society" approved the creative is shocking.

MACKEM99

hpas251 said:

In 2008, I attempted to pay a credit card bill using a Bank Giro Credit slip from the bottom of the bill along with a Nationwide cheque at the counter in Nationwide, as I had run out of cheques in my Bank of Scotland cheque book. I was informed that they could not do this as they were a building society, not a bank. Although they could set up a bill payment through phone or online banking.

They do have their own range of sort codes though (and did back in 2008 too), whereas Skipton uses Barclays sort codes.

In that case should their online banking  be called ..On line building societying?

tiger135

i really hate this new logo, the colours  the lower case, the pacman, i am actually going to leave nationwide now. 
I tried.to set up a virgin account using their app but it keeps crashing at the stage of doing the text verification. 
so its goodbye nationwide from me!
may be an overreaction, but this change makes no sense.

Bazzalona13295

tiger135 said:

i really hate this new logo, the colours  the lower case, the pacman, i am actually going to leave nationwide now. 
I tried.to set up a virgin account using their app but it keeps crashing at the stage of doing the text verification. 
so its goodbye nationwide from me!
may be an overreaction, but this change makes no sense.

It would have to be pretty bad to make me leave, especially if they provided a good service with good rates.

I just feel its a huge waste of money that could be spent more wisely elsewhere and that it is ordinary at best......

And the ad is downright terrible!

Rob5342

tiger135 said:

i really hate this new logo, the colours  the lower case, the pacman, i am actually going to leave nationwide now. 
I tried.to set up a virgin account using their app but it keeps crashing at the stage of doing the text verification. 
so its goodbye nationwide from me!
may be an overreaction, but this change makes no sense.

I've had nothing but trouble with the Virgin credit card app. For a couple.of years it would say "there has been a problem" every other time I tried to use it and I'd have to restart my phone to make it work. For the.last few months it hasn't worked at all and restarting the phone and reinstalling the app multiple times had no effect. I have a Pixel 6 which is a common decent phone with the latest updates so there should be no problem, I've never had that sort of problem with any other banks apps.

I'm not very keen on NationWest's branding but in itself that wouldn't put me off using them, however they are hopelessly old fashioned, especially their app, and I could never use them for a current account.

tiger135

so im thinking  now to use santander or monzo/starling. im not sure i want to be app only though. 

simonsmithsays

What a waste of money

Rob5342

tiger135 said:

so im thinking  now to use santander or monzo/starling. im not sure i want to be app only though. 

 

I've had all three. Starling and Monzo are nice modern banks with really good apps. Santander offers cashback on bills on some accounts, the app was quite basic when I used it but worked very reliably. You don't need to restrict yourself to one though.