Seems like a tenuous link that makes banks life a teeny tiny bit easier but at the cost of customers having to provide ever more (intrusive) information. Iām sure a bank knowing which offices I plan to visit on which days is somehow helpful to them in a similarly tenuous and obscure way - but theyāve all managed to keep my money safe so far without knowing that nugget of information
Respectfully, banks know more than enough about us already. If theyāre going to ask for more and more intrusive information for their own reasons (because letās not kid ourselves banks are benevolent entities looking out for us - theyāre for profit with their own agendas) under the guise of keeping customer money safe maybe they shouldnāt be in the banking business.
Except they all do? Not sure when you last opened a bank account but every single one I interacted with in the last year took it as an opportunity to ask the exact same questions about industry and level within company. Itās probably standard across the board these days, and if you hold an account from before this became practice, expect those banks to approach you in due course
I never understood why they asked, though I guess it makes sense to some extent.
I always hate it though, since the options are often not really suitable for what I do. What does āprofessionalā mean, for example? Iām not in clerical work exactly, and I can be a grade above and not be management or I could become a level of management at my current level. If banks are making decisions on what I say I am vs what comes in then that concerns me!
Judging from the screenshots @j06 posted Monzo arenāt asking it, so Iād challenge if that particular question really is standard.
Edit - and yes I have opened an account in the last year with a bank I had no prior relationship with and they didnāt ask any questions related to company hierarchy.
What impact would the womenās Euros have on the numbers with Starling being a sponsor and England obviously winning?
I think the one thing that I do think Starling has done but could have easily not is included ābankā in their name. It is a small and boring thing, but it makes it immediately obvious to everyone what they are. I think with Chase sponsoring the Commonwealth games, if you werenāt sure what they were beforehand, you probably wouldnāt really notice them very much.
I do know that. I think you could have worked out that I wasnāt asking for an explanation as to why Starlingās adverts had āStarling Bankā and Chaseās had āChaseā, especially when you consider the fact I already said that their name was Starling Bank. No need to be so patrionising.
I was referring to when they launched, they could do what a lot of banks do and just not have ābankā in their branding e.g. Monzo, yet they decided to include bank which immediately makes it obvious what it is to new customers. Yes, it is a very boring observation but I do wonder what the impact of it would be.
Yes, never said it wasnāt. I think the best brands are ones where you can immediately tell what the product actually is (not saying banks without ābankā in their name are bad brands, just means they have to work in other areas of marketing to push what they are).
yeah, Iāve got the programme here from the final (what a night to go to Wembley!) and Starling had a half page ad at the back.
Very little Starling branding at Wembley, and on the pitchside LEDs, itās how they activated it elsewhere, but that seems minor compared say to a UEFA top tier partner, or even what Lego and Pandora did.
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Has this been discussed? You can hide your balance now
