Co-operative Bank switching offer back by popular demand

6 February 2025

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Our Switch and Stay offer ended on 6 March 2025.

  • Re-launch of popular Switch and Stay offer enables eligible customers to receive up to £150 from Switch and Stay offer; £75 upon completing a switch to The Co-operative Bank, and £25 per month for three months thereafter.
  • Customers can also gain exclusive access to market-leading Regular Saver account, offering 7% interest on deposits of up to £250 per calendar month.

The Co-operative Bank has today announced the relaunch of its popular Switch and Stay Offer, where customers could receive up to £150 for switching their current account to The Co-operative Bank.

The offer, which saw thousands of customers benefit in 2024, is available for a limited time to new and existing customers who switch to an eligible Co-operative Bank current account*.

Customers who successfully apply to switch will have the Switch and Stay payments paid into their Co-operative Bank current account.

Co-operative Bank current account customers can also benefit from exclusive access to savings accounts, including the current best buy Regular Saver product which encourages customers to save through 7.00% interest (gross/AER) on up to £250 per month.

To qualify for the Switch and Stay offer, new and existing customers must meet the eligibility criteria and terms and conditions.

More information regarding eligibility and further terms and conditions can be viewed at our Switch and Stay page.

John Ward, Chief Commercial Officer, said:

"Our popular switching offer, relaunched today, allows eligible new and existing customers to benefit from up to £150 for switching and staying with The Co-operative Bank as their main current account provider. We hope the offer, plus exclusive access to our market-leading Regular Saver account, will encourage more people to consider switching to The Co-operative Bank – the only UK high street bank with a customer-led Ethical Policy, which guides how we do business."

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Notes to Editors

*Accounts included in the offer are a Standard Current Account, Current Account Plus, Privilege, Privilege Premier or Everyday Extra account.

View our Switch and Stay Offer page.

Customers will need to meet the below eligibility criteria for the offer:

  • New current account customers must apply on or after 6 February 2025 for a Standard Current Account or Everyday Extra account, before the offer is withdrawn.
  • Existing eligible Standard Current Account, Everyday Extra, Current Account Plus, Privilege and Privilege Premier customers must request a full switch into their existing account during the period in which the offer is live.
  • smile Current Accounts, Student Accounts and Cashminder Accounts are not eligible for this offer.
  • Eligible customers must not have benefitted from a switch incentive at The Co-operative Bank since 1 November 2022.
  • To receive the switch payment of £75, in the 30 days following completion of a switch, customers must:
    • deposit a minimum of £1,000 into their new account (this includes balances transferred as part of the switch).
    • have 2 active Direct Debits.
    • make a minimum of 10 debit card or digital wallet transactions (pending payments will not count toward fulfilment of this criteria).
    • register for our online and/or mobile banking service, and;
    • set up and kept active the debit card in a digital wallet (Apple Pay, Samsung Wallet or Google Pay)
  • New current account customers must apply for an account during the period in which the offer is live, and request a full switch within 2 weeks of account opening.
  • New and existing customers must complete a full switch into their eligible current account within 8 weeks of the switch being requested.
  • To receive the stay payments of £25 in the first three months, each month customers must:
    • deposit a minimum of £1,000 into their account
    • have 2 active Direct Debits, and;
    • make a minimum of 10 debit card or digital wallet transactions.

Co-operative Bank current account customers have exclusive access to our savings accounts.

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The Co-operative Bank Press Office

Tel: 0151 271 1985

Email: pressoffice@co-operativebank.co.uk

About The Co-operative Bank

The Co-operative Bank p.l.c. provides a full range of banking products and services to retail and SME (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises) customers and is committed to values and ethics in line with the principles of the co-operative movement.

In 1992, The Co-operative Bank took the pioneering step to become the first UK bank to launch a customer-led Ethical Policy, which gives the Bank’s customers a say on the ethical issues that are important to them, and how the Bank could help. These answers form the basis of our Ethical Policy, shaping the Bank’s ethical commitments, the way in which it will use customer’s money and the issues it will campaign for. Since 1992, the Ethical Policy remains unique in the UK and has been updated six times in consultation with the Bank’s customers, to reflect their changing priorities.

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