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Another good thing to know would be any UK bank recommendations, e.g. with a normal website and statements that aren't PDFs and go back to day one. (Amazing in this day that bank websites won't provide a full history to the account holder!)

There's no BankSimple in the UK, but some decent options would be welcome. Heard good things about FirstDirect, but I don't think they do business accounts.

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Hmm, looks like a gap in the market. . . though I guess banks wouldn't be too willing to provide an API to third parties who'd offer this service, so it would require a bank to fill this gap, rather than an independent.

Big gap if you ask me, because a clean UI would be a desirable and obvious differentiator in what mostly looks like a commodity market.

Yeah, an API would be huge but I think we're a long way from that. Retail banking in 2011==Mobile telephony in 2005.

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