Not being an ornithologist I pictured a small, weak insignificant bird perching on the branch of a small tree

Payments, Payments, Payments | Newsletter 16 | 17 May 2020

There is much to thank the Midland Bank for launching ‘free in credit banking’ in the mid 1980’s but perhaps, an unintended consequence was, this act that led to all current accounts feeling the same. A range of utility current accounts from an ever decreasing number of providers offering the same vanilla banking.

In early 1990 I made the most of my newl…