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Want a Bank with Lots of Branches? This Is the Definitive List 23/08/2018 Want a bank with lots of branches? This is the definitive list Home My Feed Saved Subscribe (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/secure/login? (https://premium.telegraph.co.uk/? - 30 days LoginICID=generic_premiumlogin_generic_generic_topnav&redirectTo=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fpersonal- Registe icid=generic_premiumsub_generic_generic_topnav) free banking%2Fcurrent-accounts%2Fwant-bank-lots-branches-have%2F) ALL SECTIONS (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/) Money Banking More › Money › Banking › Current accounts Want a bank with lots of branches? This is the definitive list Lloyds Banking Group branches are on average just 0.6 miles apart CREDIT: BLOOMBERG /CHRIS RATCLIFF By Olivia Rudgard Follow 20 FEBRUARY 2017 • 7:06AM https://www.telegraph.co.uk/personal-banking/current-accounts/want-bank-lots-branches-have/ 1/3 23/08/2018 Want a bank with lots of branches? This is the definitive list igh-street banks have closed more than 500 branches in the past year. (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/personal-banking/current- H accounts/clydesdale-yorkshire-bank-close-79-branches-taking-total-closures/) There are still more than 10,000 left - but they're not evenly spread between different companies. Some banks have kept more branches than others - and they are highly concentrated in some areas. The individual bank with the most branches is Barclays. But the full picture is more complex than that. –– ADVERTISEMENT –– The average bank branch is 2.3 miles from another of the same brand 15 10 5 0 Miles to nearest other branch TSB HSBC Halifax BarclaysNatWest Santander Clydesdale Lloyds Bank Nationwide Co-op Bank Virgin Money Sector average Handelsbanken Bank of Scotland Lloyds Banking Gr… Royal Bank of Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland G… Yorkshire Building Society Median distance to nearest other branch Highcharts.com Research from financial services firm UBS found that banks have 10,245 branches still open. Between them Lloyds Banking Group, which includes Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland, and Royal Bank of Scotland Group, which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank, have 4,181 of these. These branches are often very close to each other. Among Lloyds Banking Groups' branches, the average distance from one to another in the same group is 0.6 miles. RBS group branches have on average 1.6 miles between them. So if you want it to be more likely that there will be a branch in an area, these groups are the ones to go for. Reader Service | Current Accounts Compare current accounts now and you could save Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers can use the other bank's branches for basic banking, such as depositing and withdrawing money. Lloyds customers can do this in Bank of Scotland's branches. RBS has a different system - customers of each individual bank cannot use branches of the other banks at all, apart from using cashpoints to withdraw cash. Proximity of branches will become even more important if threats to cashpoint network LINK result in its collapse (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/personal-banking/current-accounts/banks-crisis-talks-half-free-atms-threat/) in availability of shared cashpoints. A row over the amount that banks pay cashpoint providers when their customers use the machines has put its future in doubt. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/personal-banking/current-accounts/want-bank-lots-branches-have/ 2/3 23/08/2018 Want a bank with lots of branches? This is the definitive list If this happens customers may only be able to use cashpoints provided by their own banking group for free - though this is still a relatively remote possibility. There are 10,000 bank branches still open 2000 1500 1000 500 Number of branches 0 TSB HSBC Halifax BarclaysNatWest Santander Clydesdale Lloyds Bank Nationwide Co-op Bank Virgin Money Handelsbanken Bank of Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland Yorkshire Building Society Total number of branches Highcharts This number rises to 10.6 miles for Virgin Money customers. The bank has only 74 branches in the UK, which it refers to as "stores". Each of Lloyds Bank, Barclays and NatWest has more than 1,000 branches. HSBC is the only bank "brand" outside of these two groups to have more than 1,000. It currently has 1,073 branches open. Customers can also use Post Office counters for some transactions, such as paying in and withdrawing money, though they can't be used for more complex things like taking out a mortgage with an individual bank. The report suggested that the pace of branch closure would not let up, with branch numbers set to halve over the next ten years. It said that one in four branches of the same individual bank "brand" had another branch within a five minute drive. The closures are down to reduced customer appetite for branch visits, (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/10952121/Brits-embrace-digital-banking.html) the report said. Footfall is down by 8 to 10pc every year and the average customer visits only one or twice each month. 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