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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/

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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.

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