* 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, 339 had switched bank accounts in the last year.
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Reasons for switching current bank accounts UK 2015
This statistic shows the reasons account holders gave for switching bank accounts in the last year in the United Kingdom (UK) as of the *. It was reported that the main reasons for switching bank accounts was because of better interest rates, deals, products or account conditions elsewhere.
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