I think the coronavirus is just a convenient excuse here to scrap a doomed project without admitting fault. The real problem is that they were late to the game and (to my knowledge) didn’t have anything outstanding to offer that the other big players (Monzo, Starling, Revolut) didn’t offer already.
Plus a truly awful name.
But at least there’s no flipping chicken. 
Had completely forgotten about that. It’s a shame they haven’t made the Virgin accounts into a modern banking experience seemingly at all.
No that they’re closing Bo - I’ve had 4 App updates in the last month lol! If they’d had this level of development before now then they might have had some interesting/unique features introduced and saved the bank…
The latest one actually would be generally pretty useful for any account - the ability to download all your statements at once.
I would’ve also thought though a simple ‘I’m ready to close my account’ now with a checklist would be useful - at the mo you need to talk to their support team still to close.
Incidentally, the big closedown day for Bo is the 20th July.
And…
Today should’ve been the day.
Although I’ve just logged into my account and it seems to be working. I assume it’ll close overnight.
About the right time to pay homage all those numpties on Instagram who desperately did this:
Wow. You bought a coffee and bragged about it on social media. That’s original.
It’s the ones who have clearly just made soup at home or arranged their coffee stuff at home that crack me up. 
I’m gutted that I can’t get a Bo card, so I could be like them /s
I thought these people were influencers? Just goes to show the limitations of social media.
(had to laugh at that last one, even I can wave a card in front of a costa coffee-n-muffin combo and take a picture! I should start a new life as social media guru)
Alas I’m sure they were paid handsomely.
Probably given a Bo account too, so swings and roundabouts!
Perhaps they’d be able to budget better if they didn’t spend all their money on coffee, Moleskines and Apple laptops?
Just a thought, Millennials.
I can’t imagine the pay for these being that high; it’s not like it requires any particular skill so I would expect the mechanics of supply & demand to cap the fee to something reasonable.
If somebody wants to me pay to take a picture next to a card, please get in touch.
What’s the fee?
Nothing now
Bye bye Bó
Wow high levels of snark in here. Never understood the ‘Instagram is awful’ thing, I’m on it, I’m not an influencer and I think I follow one person who might be classed that way (I knew her BEFORE though so that just makes me cool).
So what if they spend their money on coffee and Apple laptops (would it be ok if it was a DELL?)…
Why do you all care about it at all? No skin aff yer nose as my wee granny would say!
Queue the ‘we were only joking’ and ‘just a bit of banter’ in 3… 2… 1…