Charter has good products, but the main complaint I have is that they use BACS for payments instead of Faster Payments. This means that if you action a withdrawal on a Friday, you will receive the funds on Tuesday, instead of immediately with the Faster Payments system used by other banks. If a Bank Holiday intervenes you can wait 5 or even 6 days. If you want to transfer from one Charter account to another (on a Thursday or Friday) you must wait 4, 5 or 6 days and then send the money back to Charter. By that time another weekend may have intervened.
Reviewed on: 4th July 2016
