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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....