Londoners, bank recs?

[rupertpenny]

Not HSBC! Maybe they are better in the UK, but I hate HSBC with everything inside of me.

[frlcb]

We have accounts at Lloyd's and they have always been fine

[mrsukyankee]

I've liked Barclays.

[loira]

Another rec for Barclays. Easy peasy to set up. I've had previous accounts at both Lloyds and Natwest and had less than stellar experiences at both (NatWest was the worst).

[Deleted]

We have HSBC and we like it. We have a Premier account and don't pay any fees. Love it. I've had people in other countries use HSBC and say they hated. Go figure.

We don't use it to transfer money back to Canada (use OANDA an online exchange) or to cash foreign checks (the fees are huge and exchange sucks - we send them back to Canada).

[aMrsin09]

See if you qualify for Lloyds offshore account. Not sure what the real name of it is.
It's three accounts US, Euros and Sterling and you can transfer funds between the accounts. It's only available to foreigners.

Sent from my SM-G900I using proboards

[fbf2006]

Sept 29, 2014 8:14:57 GMT -5 rupertpenny said:

Not HSBC! Maybe they are better in the UK, but I hate HSBC with everything inside of me.

We got HSBC and hate it so much! I don't know what we were thinking.

[lolo]

NatWest is the worst. Like egregiously awful.

I was happy with HSBC overall.

[Cicero]

We changed from HSBC, but in retrospect they are the best we have used when it comes to international transfers and living somewhere other than the US.