Which bank is best?

Well I would highly recommend First Direct. They do have max. payment limits of 10k on single faster payments still.

I do hold savings and current account with Tesco, and to date have never had a problem with them. Payments out (admittedly from the savings accounts) have always been rapid: I do however find their limit of 10k per day - I think that is how it works - withdrawl from account, certiainly if to same destination to be a pain.

Thanks for the suggestions.

I've had a look around and decided to try Nationwide for now.  Their website says there is a £10k limit on individual payments but no daily limit so I can just make multiple payments.  But the main thing is I can see in my online banking there that you can check the status of payments you have made to see if they have gone through.  This seems much better than Tesco where you are told your payment has been made even when it hasn't.

I find Nationwide very reliable. Transfers both ways are instant. They still have a 5% regular saver too (£500 pm) 

Natwest froze my first payment to Moneything, but didn't see fit to actually inform me.

Santander leaked a unique and obscure email address known only to me and them - I have received several phishing emails to it. Others have also experienced this, but Information Commissioner's Office said that there "wasn't enough evidence" to proceed with complaint.

I'm banned from Natwest and RBS group banks.  They sent me a letter a couple years back giving my 90 days to switch banks with no reason given.

It's also worth bearing in mind which bank each P2P platform's client accounts are held with - as if you're also with the same bank, your transactions are likely to be faster (near instantaneous) than a transaction from your bank to a different bank.

I recently compiled a list of which bank P2P platforms hold client accounts in which bank in this thread.

I think the questions needs rephrasing to "Which bank is the least bad"!

Let's face it, none of them are "good", they don't exist for your benefit they exist to make money out of you. What they do is pretty standardised too so it shouldn't be seen as X bank makes faster transfers more X bank actually does the basic task that it advertises it does correctly. Anything less than that is failure.

The only difference between them is how they treat you as a human and for that I believe Nationwide to be the only bank to even come close have treated me as human. I've many accounts with many banks and Nationwide are the only one's who have ever taken anything I've told them seriously. It was almost like they... looking for a better way to say this... gave two s***s what I told them. All the others couldn't care less what you think and have completely lost sight who's paying their bills.

For example a large Spanish bank started randomly sending my wife's statements to an address we lived at two addresses previous to where we currently live. They told her that it wasn't possible to change the address without the post that was being send to an address 160 miles away. We'd not even changed address recently, they just decided to on her behalf. On the phone they couldn't even act like human beings and listen to the nonsensical advice they were giving her. They were basically giving her the "computer says no" line. IDIOTS.