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Comment by alexbilbie | Hacker News Reader

Aside from Mondo and Atom Bank who else is there?

There's quite a crop, some of the ones I've seen so far

- Starling http://starlingbank.co.uk/ - Tandem https://tandem.co.uk/ - Loot https://loot.io/ - Fidor https://www.fidorbank.uk/ - Metro (been around a bit longer but still relatively new) https://www.metrobankonline.co.uk/ - Aldermore http://www.aldermore.co.uk/

and Moven https://www.moven.com/ - Curve http://www.imaginecurve.com/ Osper (kids bank) http://www.osper.com/ - Secco http://www.seccobank.com/ granted, osper, moven and curve are not much more than prepaid cards

I have been a client of MetroBank since a few years ago and just love it. My recent experience with Aldermore has also been nice.

Anyone tried any of the others?

I was very happy with MetroBank until I moved away from London; they don't have a branch in Manchester yet. Also, their debit card now charges for purchases outside of Europe so they would charge me for AWS purchases.

Now I'm with Halifax; the customer service is no where near as good, but at least I have a Mastercard with free foreign currency transactions.

My Halifax branch staff have always been wonderful; fortunately for me, said branch is five minutes' walk from my office so I can basically go via there when walking into town to scavenge lunch. Otherwise, yeah, YMMV.

FFREES and Monese. Although Mondo looks like it will be the most slick and feature rich

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