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Scottish Bank Hoilday 2026
Just curious as to why they paid out then rather than Monday when banks are open again.
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Branches may be closed but for payments processing it’s London bank holidays that matter and that’s what they all work to.Eldi_Dos said:I have a Council Tax standing order that comes off on the first of the month, this January's one I expected it to be paid on the 5th as 1st and 2nd are Bank Holidays here, but the Royal paid it out on the 2nd.
Just curious as to why they paid out then rather than Monday when banks are open again.7 -
They might be working from UK bank holidays not Scotland specific so as it's not a bank holiday anywhere else, hence they process it. Royal Bank are under NatWest so probably why they work off the UK ones
Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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Scotland is part of the UK by the way and yes the as the second day of Hogmanay celebrations. I sometime get BACs payments on Saturdays from Barclays it very inconsistent between organizations.1
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Scotland is and has it's own bank holidays but the banks work for the UK ones i.e. that affect all of us or England and Wales at least e.g. I suspect they will not do Scotland payments on the 6th April but will do on the 3rd Augustsheenas said:Scotland is part of the UK by the way and yes the as the second day of Hogmanay celebrations. I sometime get BACs payments on Saturdays from Barclays it very inconsistent between organizations.Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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The Scottish banks used to have separate bank holiday processing for accounts domiciled at Scottish branches for Scottish holidays, but it was a right faff to set up and run each time so all the banks switched to using the English bank holiday schedule for all processing throughout the UK at least 20 years ago. The move to accounts being held at sortcodes that bore no relation to where the account holder lived was an additional factor in making the change.6
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@Siliconechip
Thanks for that, the mention of sort codes got me thinking, I have had the same sort code since I was eighteen although having had four different addresses since then, eventually sixty miles away from original branch.Play with the expectation of winning not the fear of failure. S.Clarke0 -
i have been with my bank for 0ver 50 years.
i am on my 4 th branch address which is no longer local to me.2
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