Banking

Map shows every bank set to close as hundreds to disappear from the high street


Hundreds of major bank branches are set to shut in an ‘avalanche of closures’ across the country this year. There have already been 12 shut their doors in January with another 38 set to follow suit by the by the end of this month.

Fortunately, none of the 38 soon to be closed branches are in the Coventry and Warwickshire area. Our area appears to have escaped the wave of closures so far this this year.




However, there are a total of 245 banks set to close in 2024, with another six branches due shut but with no end date yet announced. Even more closures could be on the horizon with the closure of 15 banks in 2025 already confirmed.

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Of all those impending closures, the loss of 89 branches will leave the surrounding communities with no alternative branches of any bank. Since February 2022 – when a voluntary agreement saw the major banking groups commit to assessing the impact of every closure – 1,325 banks have either shut or announced their intention to close. This is an average of 55 closures announced every month or almost two per day.

The LINK initiative to assess the impact of closures – which was agreed by all the major banks including Barclays, HSBC, Natwest, Lloyds, and Halifax – was set up to ensure vulnerable customers and small businesses were not left behind in the switch to cashless payments and virtual banking. When closures leave communities without any local bank, banking hubs or free ATMs are set up to fill the gap. The wave of bank closures has affected every part of the UK, with a total of 1,107 lost in England alone, plus another 92 in Scotland, 83 in Wales, 42 in Northern Ireland, and one in the Isle of Wight.

Around a quarter of those closures (356, or 27 per cent) have left the surrounding community with no branch of any bank nearby. You can see which banks are closing or have closed in your area using our interactive map below

Charity Age UK is calling for branch closures to be put on hold until more banking hubs have opened in areas with no alternative services. This is to minimise the impact it could have on the older generation.



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