The big name banks losing the most customers (2024)

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BANK giant Barclays is losing customers in their droves as more people vote with their feet and switch provider, according to figures released today.

By Lana Clements

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More customers are leaving banks that they're not happy with

Almost 132,000 people left the troubled bank last year through the free to use Current Account Switch Service (CASS).

Taking into account new openings, Barclays lost around 100,000 customers overall - the highest of any of the biggest banks.

Earlier this year, the bank refreshed its current account offering in a bid to win customers back.

But it has remained shrouded in a cloud of scandal after recently landing a huge £1.53billion fine over its involvement in the rigging of global currency markets.

Barclays also admitted this year that it was putting aside another £150million for customer redress for the mis-selling of payment protection insurance (PPI).

A spokesman for the bank said that the figures did not take account of openings outside of the service and that, in fact, it opens more accounts than it closes on a monthly basis.

He said: "Today’s figures illustrate how important it is to continue to evolve our products and services for our customers.

"We have recently launched Barclays Blue Rewards to give new customers a great reason to switch to us and existing customers a great reason to stay and we are delighted with the level of interest to date.”

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NatWest lost the second largest amount of customers in 2014, with over 70,000 more people leaving the bank than joining.

Santander remains the most popular bank account for new customers, according to the figures.

More than 275,000 people opened a bank account with the provider, while 90,000 customers closed an account to leave it with 186,000 more customers overall.

Halifax was not far behind, counting 150,000 more customers by the end of last year.

Nationwide Building Society and Tesco Bank were the only other providers to see a steady growth in the number of customers.

Andrew Hagger, finance expert of Moneycomms, said the figures painted a grim picture for most of the high street banking giants.

And he added that Santander gain "is no doubt partly due to rock bottom savings rates" that makes its 123 account's rate of three per cent paid on credit balances between £3,000 and £20,000 especially attractive.

Overall more people are swapping their accounts through the switching service, with 1.1m swapping over the 12 months to July 2015, compared to 1.06m in the same period the year before.

Confidence in the switching process has also increased from 58 per cent to 69 per cent since CASS launched in 2013.

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The big name banks losing the most customers (2024)

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