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Metro bank

RobM99 · 2025-09-05 14:37:45

All the advantages I signed up for have gone (cash only account). GONE! Saturday opening. GONE! Replacement card 'there and then' in branch. GONE! Change deposit counting machine thingy Any reason I should stay with them at all? I'm struggling to find any.

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Eco_Miser Posts: 4,945 Forumite

7 September at 10:16PM

confederated said:

Section62 said:

The same could be said of Nationwide's purchase of Virgin Money, and Santander's prospective purchase of TSB.

Indeed. That's why I'm asking - because I don't understand.

Well, Nationwide got an actual bank (they're not a bank), with a literal licence to print money.

Eco Miser
Saving money for well over half a century
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