| It's not quite what it seems. I'd picked up a contract in the UK and relocated to the client and created a company for the contract. I then tried to get a business bank account with a normal bank, and failed. Metro bank took forever and tons of info and then said no. (I issued a GDPR data access to see if I could find out anything. After a while, they sent me the same letter twice, arriving on the same day, telling me they had performed the data deletion I had requested.) HSBC seemed to lose the application - it disappeared. It had been challenging to make in the first place, the application process was confused and confusing (and that was in the bank with help). I didn't try again (and there wasn't really time to try again - the client was already having to hold off paying me, which is awkward for them). I looked at some others, Lloyds and Barclays, and it's been a while so I can't remember why but they didn't pan out. TransferWise was my final choice. When the contract was done, I left the UK, so no opportunity to open further bank accounts in UK for the business. |