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The pressure builds on Scotlands two dismal banks - Royal Bank of Scotland and Bank of Scotland - and on LINK Scheme Ltd, whose attempts to defend the indefensible are, quite frankly, pathetic. This is a brilliant in depth report by Martin Williams - Scotlands Financial/Business Journalist of the Year - in the The Herald Scotland, with invaluable insights from Adam Stachura at Age Scotland. The ....

An excellent article by Zoe Wood in the The Guardian. As the Payment Choice Alliance has highlighted before, Lloyds Bank has been particularly active in destroying genuine face-to-face customer service by closing their branches. Surrey outside the M25 has lost at least 11 Lloyds Bank in recent years, with only three remaining - and the branch in Camberley has probably only been kept because it al....

Ron Delnevo talks to James Cameron on BBC Radio Surrey about disgraceful bank branch closures - and tells James what the British public can do about it! Source: youtube.com/watch?v=zFb0FUIKG2U

Our Chair Ron Delnevo had a good discussion about banking with Henry Reilly on London Broadcasting Company - or LBC, if you prefer! Henry and Ron were discussing HM Treasury appointing Richard Lloyd OBE to investigate the negative impact of bank branch closures and to recommend remedies. The Payment Choice Alliance welcomes this initiative, though convinced that it is more than a little late. T....

With bank branches disappearing at the rate of two a day for the last ten years - and ATMs being ripped out even faster - retailers are becoming more important than ever in supplying cash to the British public. And no retailer is more important than Tesco. Tesco now have more branches than the total operated by the UK’s Big Five banks. And most of those Tesco’s branches have busy ATM....

The best and funniest Anti Digital Domination -and pro cash - video we have ever seen! Amidst the humour, the video raises many questions - including should “smartphones” be banned from pubs as well as schools? It would mean more conversation- and less cheating at Pub Quizes! Anyway, have a good laugh HM Treasury, Rt Hon Rachel Reeves and Lucy Rigby KC MP - then get your act togethe....

Ron Delnevo tells Henry Reilly at LBC that a MINIMUM of 1200 Banking Hubs are required, all with 24/7 ATMs and FULL face-to-façe Banking Services. Source: [link]

And it is not just Russians! EVERYONE returns to cash - because it ALWAYS works. Without cash, each of us is really simply an insignificant peripheral of the digital systems that seek to monitor and ultimately control our every move. Putin is one of the trio of Dictators who are seeking to divide this planet between them. If you don’t know who the other two are, you really need to stay i....

Brilliant news from Sweden! The Swedish government has submitted a bill to parliament that requires grocery stores and pharmacies to accept cash. And why? Because the Government has realised that a “cashless” Sweden cannot be fully inclusive or completely resilient. The same, of course, is absolutely true of the UK! Time for Keir Starmer and Rt Hon Rachel Reeves to discover the wi....

Although 7000 free-to-use 24/7 ATMs may well not be enough, this move by the French banks in many ways shames their UK counterparts. The French banks know full well that ATMs are the only way of delivering convenient 24/7 cash services, in both urban and rural areas. They also know that deposit facilities are vital to the French public and businesses, so the 7000 ATMs installed will accept cash ....