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• Your wealth: HOW THE HOLE IN THE WALL PUTS A HOLE IN YOUR POCKET

  - 1999-06-06

  TWO of Britain's biggest banks, Abbey National and Midland, who together made profits of pounds 2,673 million last year, are to charge customers more for withdrawing their own money from cash machines. Abbey National are cutting the number of cash machines where customers can get their money...

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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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• Personal Finance: Switching isn't hard to do

  - 1998-11-07

  Running a current account must be a highly schizophrenic business. On the one hand, surveys from consumer organisations show that on the whole we are deeply dissatisfied with the level of service we receive from banks. Yet when banks carry out similar surveys on their own customers, they achieve Stalin-like...

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• At big banks, it's no big deal

  - 1997-01-05

  Britain's high-street banks consistently lag behind building societies in most of the financial services they provide, according to a survey by Which? magazine last week. Building societies generally pay better interest rates, offer cheaper mortgages and charge less for overdrafts than their banking counterparts. But the big societies...

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