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• PERSONAL FINANCE: Interest grows in the oddball newcomers

  - 2000-06-17

  As internet banking grows in popularity, high street banks are casting off their staid image to mix it with the new breed of trendy online banks. Internet-only banks such as Egg, First-e and Smile are now getting a run for their money from equally oddball names such...

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• Punting In The City: The converted look to the Abbey

  - 2000-02-06

  Dissatisfaction with the interest rates paid by deposit accounts is nothing new but now there is an alternative for discontented savers. The share prices of converted building societies have suffered such catastrophic falls in the past 12 months that in several cases they now yield more than the interest rates...

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• Cost, Convenience Among Reasons British Customers Change Banks.

  - 1999-01-07

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 6 -- Someone who often slips into the red should choose a bank with low overdraft charges. If you always remain within an agreed limit, you will be affected only by authorised overdraft fees. But if you...

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• The chosen few of the City

  - 1997-12-28

  Money will be no object for Lloyds TSB on the trail of its next big acquisition. Sir Brian Pitman, the venerable chairman of the bank, sneers at the suggestion that the next deal will be anything less than monumental. "When you're talking about size, if you think we're limited to...

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• Cash in hand wherever you may be

  - 1996-12-08

  Customers of the Royal Bank of Scotland will become the first to be able to make free withdrawals from Britain's entire network of 21,000 cashpoints, it was announced last week. The move, which will give RBS customers free access to any bank or building society cashpoint from next...

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• It's in your interest to try another bank;

  - 1996-09-29

  Interest rates may be at a 30-year low but the Big Four banks are still treating their customers in a high-handed manner. Poor service, unsympathetic managers, excessive fees and interest on overdrawn accounts are familiar complaints made against Barclays, Lloyds, Midland and NatWest. There are tempting alternatives....

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• It's in your interest to try another bank

  - 1996-09-29

  Interest rates may be at a 30-year low but the Big Four banks are still treating their customers in a high-handed manner. Poor service, unsympathetic managers, excessive fees and interest on overdrawn accounts are familiar complaints made against Barclays, Lloyds, Midland and NatWest. There are tempting alternatives....

  Tags: Abbey National Plc., Barclays Plc., Halifax, Woolwich