Halifax gains 22,000 current account customers after £100 summer sweetener
Current account switching bounced back in the last three months of 2020 as customers took advantage of three-figure switching bonuses from Britain's biggest banks. Some 189,000 accounts were switched through the official seven-day service between October and December, with November seeing the highest number of switchers at 80,000 since March 2020. Meanwhile, figures for individual banks - which lag behind and show July to September data - reveals that stablemates Halifax and Lloyds benefited from the relaunching of current account switching bonuses, with both banks gaining thousands of custo...