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Originally Posted by Graham44
Well at least they haven't completely stopped you from high street banking. It seems a lot of the banks and building societies in the UK want to go the same way but I don't think there is as much appetite for it over here. Talking to a couple of different branch managers of the new building society I'm with they've seen an influx of new customers that are defecting from the building society that have got rid of passbooks over to them as they still offer them.
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Different history, I guess. All our banks have only been in operation a bit over 30 years, so they never had checkbooks, passbooks and other non-digital ways of managing your money. Everything went online almost immediately and people quickly got used to it.