This article
is getting a bit old at this stage. Does anybody have an update? If I need to reliably transfer money from accounts abroad, do I need to change bank?
You need to use Wise.
If international transfers are a bit part of your banking then it would be good to have an account that handles it better.
No. But you would be best advised to use a different bank to receive international transfers. Pretty much any other U.K. bank would do.