* Nearly 4.55 thousand completed interviews out of the 120 thousand sample drawn from the personal current account holders databank, provided by all major UK banks. Data was weighted to correct oversampling. Among the 4.55 thousand, 1,874 had multiple current accounts with different banks.
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Reasons for holding several current accounts with different banks in the UK 2015
This statistic shows the reasons account holders gave for holding multiple current accounts with different banks in the United Kingdom (UK) as of the first quarter of 2015. It was reported that more than a half (**%) of respondents listed "different purposes" as their main reason for using multiple bank accounts.
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GfK Media and Communication Research, & Competition and Markets Authority. (April 15, 2015). Account holders reasons for having multiple current accounts with different banks in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2015 [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved July 23, 2026, from /statistics/467273/reasons-for-having-multiple-accounts-in-different-banks-uk/
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