For ** percent of UK customers, the only bank that an account can be opened the same day is Nationwide in 2019. With other banks, the longest UK bank customers will have to wait for an account to be opened ranged between *** day at banks such as RBS and relative newcomers Monzo, to as long as ** days at First Direct.
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