Where do I go now?

I've been with the coop for over 40 years and I'm not going to change at the moment. I don't have any savings with them so I'm going to wait and see what happens. Looking around none of the others seem any more appealing. I know this man has been found to be unqualified but the chairs of other banks seem to have got in just as much of a mess and have been just as unsavoury.

Try the Nationwide, still a mutual and owned by its customers.

I think we have lost faith in all the financial institutions these days, and they will all have to think again about how they conduct their businesses and the back-lash that will happen if they are now found to be incompetent. I do not think we have even touched the tip of the ice-berg with some of them, or perhaps I am just old and cynical now.

Banks are businesses and are there to make a profit and most current accounts at the moment don't pay any interest at all on accounts in credit.
Lloyds Bank, TSB, Santander do pay interest and I am with them all.

We don't allow our accounts to go into the red so don't pay charges but I guess for people who do require overdrafts you should shop around, it's your money and is better in your pocket than the banks.