Every Royal Bank of Scotland closure: is your branch impacted as bailed-out bank wields the axe?
The closure of banks has become all too common across the UK. Thousands of branches have been closed over the past decade as facilities try to force customers online.
It has become increasingly difficult to actually speak to a bank employee about your money with the rise of apps and digital banking something that has especially impact on the elderly and vulnerable. And that is the case even if your bank relied on the taxpayer to bail it out.
The Royal Bank of Scotland had to be handed £20 billion of public money from the UK treasury in 2008 to stop it collapsing. The government eventually relinquished control in 2022.
For its part, RBS has ‘thanked’ the public by shutting branches and will continue that programme this year with a slew of closures. Bosses claim the “way people bank with us has changed dramatically in recent years” and insist closing a bank branch “is a decision we take very seriously”.
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But that will be scant consolation to the customers left behind. Here are all 20 RBS branches closing in the coming months:
- Aberdeen St Nicholas – October 9
- Bathgate – September 25
- Cumbernauld Tay Walk – September 18
- Dundee Kingsway Circus – October 8
- East Kilbride – October 1
- Edinburgh Brunstfield – September 26
- Edinburgh Leith – October 10
- Edinburgh Nicolson Street – September 19
- Glasgow Cardonald – September 17
- Glasgow Charing Cross – November 19
- Glasgow Rutherglen West – September 24
- Glasgow Sauchiehall Street – November 19
- Helensburgh – September 25
- Holts Farnborough – October 15
- Inverness Chief Office – TBC, relocating to new branch
- Inverness Eastgate – TBC, relocating to new branch
- Largs – October 3
- New Deer – September 26
- Newbridge – October 2
- Wishaw – September 24
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