[Sir Squeaky]

I need to get out of Natwest sharpish, they've caused me nothing but trouble over the years and I'm sick of their bad advice and sneaky charges.
I'm also tired of their tiny branch with long queues which cost me time and money.

What does everyone suggest as a good move for a small business?

Lloyds would be handy, as there's a big posh branch in my town...any good?

[martinsadie]

im with the Halifax 

[The Jester of Wibbly]

Santendar, joined them when was with abbey.

Never had to pay a penny in charges yet

[Richy L]

HSBC do free business banking for 18months. They are good! I have had no problems with them. But When my 18months is up i will be changing due to the charges.

Aliance and leister do free business banking all through the post office.

[niceandclean]

Co-Op free banking through the Post Office, brilliant service if you need to call up.

[formb]

Alliance & Leicester are free as long as you deposit £1000 in a month and no more than £3000 in cash.

Their online banking is OK. RBS online is better though, but they charge for depositing chqs which is a bit of a nightmare.

I bank with both at present.

As with everything it pays to shop around

[Sir Squeaky]

Half of them mentioned seem to be building societys...

I want a bank that I have a branch of.

Lloyds
Barclays
HSBC (bit of a piddly branch though)

What about these? I know Richy already mentioned HSBC.

[martinsadie]

toss a coin between Barclays and Lloyds then 

[daz1977]

i am with barclays and had no probs,  pretty quick at sorting out problems,  but i live out in the  country and out bank is only open 4 hours a day 3 days a week,  lol

[daz1977]

sounds stupid but one of the reason i went with barclsy is i can park out side and dont have to go to town and pay for parking and walk to the bank

[martinsadie]

sounds stupid but one of the reason i went with barclsy is i can park out side and dont have to go to town and pay for parking and walk to the bank

sounds good ,there were 3 post offices around here and 1 had to close,they closed the only one you could park outside of, madness

[Sir Squeaky]

sounds stupid but one of the reason i went with barclsy is i can park out side and dont have to go to town and pay for parking and walk to the bank

That's the reason I was hoping someone would say Barclays or Lloyds.
They've both got big accessable branches with advisers on hand too. Shatwest just tell you to ring a call centre!

[Moderator David@stives]

Barclays have been fantastic for me

I get free bacs, which is second to none,

My average quarterly fee is about £140, worth every penny,

[Proclean ne]

HSBC been spot on still got free banking till sept me happy.

[Sir Squeaky]

Barclays have been fantastic for me

I get free bacs, which is second to none,

My average quarterly fee is about £140, worth every penny,

Ouch! Natwest charge me a flat rate £25 per month

[Sir Squeaky]

Barclays have been fantastic for me

I get free bacs, which is second to none,

My average quarterly fee is about £140, worth every penny,

Oh, and whats bacs? Or do you mean bags?

[Moderator David@stives]

bacs payments

ie credit transfer

we bank about 300 cheques a month.

the old saying holds true, you get what you pay for

[Sir Squeaky]

bacs payments

ie credit transfer

we bank about 300 cheques a month.

the old saying holds true, you get what you pay for

Well yeah, but I get about a tenth that amount of cheques, and I don't want higher charges!

[The Jester of Wibbly]

you can use those compare . com sites.  I guess the bank u use depands on what your banking needs are to best suit u

[Moderator David@stives]

Rog

It will cost you a tenth of the price then

about 35p a checque, £20 account fee, 75p for writing a cheque