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Review of the Smile Bank, Current Account:

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Failing to provide an adequate service

have been a customer for almost 25 years, and service now seems to be at the worst level in all of that time. Anything more than a nominal payment with a debit or credit card to a new or occasional payee is stopped, due to overly cautious fraud prevention controls. There are very long delays when calling customer service (an hour or more is common), and menus are unduly cumbersome to get to call handler. However, I have found call handlers are helpful and polite if you have the time and patience to wait for someone to become available. Responses from online messaging normally take days, rather than hours. App and online banking are both unreliable, with frequent and long-lasting outages, with no proper indication of timescale for availability. What were once class-leading interfaces were overtaken by competitors some time ago. Reviewed on: 19th March 2024

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