TBH I've been planning for months to get "friends" involved, as I don't want my own lifelong bank to be used anything other than a few eBay purchases. I meant to keep that bank completely compartmentalized and keep under £5k in there.
But I slept on it too long, I allowed my balance to pass £5k for a whole year and keep on growing. So now I got a letter asking me to verify my ID and a few international work transactions.
Here is where my shift towards anonymity in the past 7 years caught up with me while I procrastinated the past year... I still have a driver's license left over, but they want 2 IDs - I literally have nothing else from the list of IDs they accept. So I'm at a dead end.
I went to the branch and they just kept robotically quoting rules from their sacred regulator. No point debating with sheep!
Anyway, I'll have to open a new real life bank account, using my drivers license + Barclays statement. Any banks in the UK that aren't absolutely terrible?
But I slept on it too long, I allowed my balance to pass £5k for a whole year and keep on growing. So now I got a letter asking me to verify my ID and a few international work transactions.
Here is where my shift towards anonymity in the past 7 years caught up with me while I procrastinated the past year... I still have a driver's license left over, but they want 2 IDs - I literally have nothing else from the list of IDs they accept. So I'm at a dead end.
I went to the branch and they just kept robotically quoting rules from their sacred regulator. No point debating with sheep!
Anyway, I'll have to open a new real life bank account, using my drivers license + Barclays statement. Any banks in the UK that aren't absolutely terrible?
so you can imagine the others. But my experience with UK banks dates back some time, I suspect it's much worse today.