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More UK customers than ever are switching bank accounts

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A record rise in the number of UK consumers switching current account providers has been revealed by the government body set up to aid the process.

More than 376,000 people moved to a new bank in the final three months of last year, according to figures issued by Pay.UK, which runs the Current Account Switching Service (CASS). That compares with 250,000 in the same period in 2021. In November alone, just over 157,000 people used CASS

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