Being an octagenarian technophobe I appreciate being 'nursemaided' through the on-line switch process last January. Moreover, mercifully, setting up and using the app proved to be a doddle. I especially like the fact that, unlike Lloyds Bank, whom I dumped after over fifty years' custom (though that was about six years ago), NatWest don't automatically address me by my first name (over-familiar) but take the trouble to ASK how I wish to be called; furthermore, NatWest eschews being'matey' - irritating in the extreme - by enquiring of a completely stranger about the state of my health; none of your business thank you very much, stick to purpose please. They do. Well done
Reviewed on: 15th April 2019
Being an octagenarian technophobe, I particularly appreciate having been 'nursemaided' through the on -line switch process when I signed up with them in January this year. Also, despite aforementioned tech fears, their app is very simple to use. However, what I like most of all about them when I call Customer Services is that they unfailingly take the professional courtesy to ASK whether or not it's alright to use my first name. Being unapologetically 'old school' I always thank them and request that they address me by my surname. About six years ago I left Lloyds Bank after nearly half a century's custom for a number of reasons but the thing that powerfully decided me to dump them was that, without exception, they a-u-t-o-m-a-t-i-c-a-l-l-y assumed that it was ok to immediately call me by my first name. No it most definitely is not! It's ove-rfamiliarity and I intensely dislike it. Furthermore, they also
irritated me by often enquiring after my health - none of your business thank you very much. Fine if you're regularly dealing over the counter with your usual teller but absolutely not if, over the phone, you're invariably speaking to a complete stranger - far too matey in my oponion. Well done to NatWest in this double connection for avoiding that sort of approach. As the saying has it, "Little things mean a lot":
They do.
Reviewed on: 15th April 2019
I'm a curmudgeonly octogenarian so I don't give praise lightly to anyone. I have no current account with Monzo but I did take out their foreign cash card earlier this year. To compare this Bank's consummate professionalism - in every aspect of their modus operandi - versus many other competitors with whom I've banked over the years is to mark the difference between bucket and Boeing, hence the title of my review. They are not so much a breath of fresh air in the market, more a much needed force 9 gale.
Reviewed on: 4th January 2018
