First Direct £175 switch offer. 26/03/24

SaveTheEuro

First Direct are offering £175 on switches to new accounts opened between 26 March and before the offer closes on April 22 or is withdrawn. Criteria: 

Go through a full CASS switch process to transfer their everyday banking, including switching at least two direct debit or standing orders within 30 days of opening the account (this must be from a provider that participates in CASS).

Deposit a minimum of £1,000 into their account within 30 days of the account opening. 

Registering and logging onto digital banking, within 30 days of the account opening. 

Be a new customer of first direct, who has not previously held a first direct product or opened a HSBC current account on or after 1 January 2018. 

WillPS

£36.75 TopCashback too.

cymruchris

SaveTheEuro said:

First Direct are offering £175 on switches to new accounts opened between 26 March and before the offer closes on April 22 or is withdrawn. Criteria: 

Go through a full CASS switch process to transfer their everyday banking, including switching at least two direct debit or standing orders within 30 days of opening the account (this must be from a provider that participates in CASS).

Deposit a minimum of £1,000 into their account within 30 days of the account opening. 

Registering and logging onto digital banking, within 30 days of the account opening. 

Be a new customer of first direct, who has not previously held a first direct product or opened a HSBC current account on or after 1 January 2018. 

Where are you seeing the details of this promo? Can't see it on the MSE bank account page or the website direct?

lr1277

A google search says GB News is reporting this.

cymruchris

lr1277 said:

A google search says GB News is reporting this.

A highly trusted source then 

Zanderman

Also being reported on other sites, though not yet on mainstream sites (GB News isn't what I'd call mainstream!).

E.g. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/first-direct-says-itll-pay-28886082 

Bridlington1

Now live on their website:
https://www.firstdirect.com/banking/switching-bank-accounts/

EDIT: I've now archived the full Ts&Cs on the wayback machine for future reference:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240326081125/https://www.firstdirect.com/content/dam/wpb/fsdt/en/documents/pdf/switch-offer-terms-and-conditions.pdf

danco

They say the offer does not apply to those who opened an HSBC account after 1 Jan 2018. Does that kind of condition usually get applied? I know that the RBS/NatWest/Ulster offer said you could only apply to one but in practice people got all three. I have never had a First Direct account but opened an HSBC Advance account last November, and it is still open for its final bonus.

fun4everyone

Of course I opened my very first account with the HSBC/First Direct group last week.  Chalking this one up as an L. 

cymruchris

That's interesting - their longstanding previous switch excluded those who had opened a HSBC account before 2020 - the qualifying date appears to have gone backwards to 2018 rather than forwards with the new promotion. I had opened a HSBC account just after the last offer's cut-off - so had been hoping that with the new offer coming in 2024, they'd move the qualifying date forwards with it - but for whatever reason they've decided to go backwards instead  

Nasqueron

cymruchris said:

That's interesting - their longstanding previous switch excluded those who had opened a HSBC account before 2020 - the qualifying date appears to have gone backwards to 2018 rather than forwards with the new promotion. I had opened a HSBC account just after the last offer's cut-off - so had been hoping that with the new offer coming in 2024, they'd move the qualifying date forwards with it - but for whatever reason they've decided to go backwards instead  

HSBC did the same, I have an FD account so wouldn't qualify at the moment but if they do move forward again I might in the future