Consumers 'dread changing accounts'

One in eight people would find doing a bungee jump or parachuting out of a plane less daunting than switching their current account provider, research has found.

The findings from Santander come ahead of a new customer guarantee being introduced from next month which will cut the length of time it takes to switch current accounts and mean that outgoing and incoming payments are automatically moved over.
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