Bank of Scotland issue.

How is it possible to pay cash into someone's acount at a Bank of Scotland?

When I went to the Halifax, they said they could not allow e to pay cash into someone's BoS account?

Yet according to the BoS website all branches are now called Halifax!

The lady at the Halifax yesterday said I would need to go to Liverpool Street. However, all branches in that area seem to be Halifax!

Ideas?

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No-one
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You may have to bank it into your account and transfer it to the other account. That cash could be the proceeds of drug dealing don't you know.

They are - useless isn't it - have the same problem with our business account with BOS.

Ask her for the address of the branch - and when she can't find it (or discovers it is a Halifax branch or agency) ask her to complete the complaint form for you.

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Wireless Reader

This is correct. My wife has an account with HBoS with a branch in Scotland (she's Scottish) and I think there is only one place in London she can pay money in. IIRC it's near the Bank of England (so saying Liverpool Street isn't too far off). I think there also used to be a branch near Trafalgar square but it may now be closed. See if you can get the other party to phone their bank and ask where in London they can pay money in. They are supposed to be fixing this problem soon, so it may also be a crappy cashier giving you duff information.

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Peter Ibbotson

The same way it's possible to pay cash into someone's account at any other bank.

Weren't you there? Don't you remember? Why do you ask? Are you appealing for witnesses?

This BOS/Halifax identity crisis is a red herring. The real issue is paying cash into other people's accounts, and it's a problem no matter who the relevant bankers are.

You need a pre-printed paying-in slip for the payee's account.

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Ronald Raygun

When did that happen? It has been many years since I paid money into someone else's account (and very seldom even go into a bank branch), but there always used to be a supply of blank paying slips where you had to fill in the sort code, account number and name of the account.

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Graham Murray

Indeed there used to be. Quite a few years ago. Ten or so.

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Ronald Raygun

That BOS branch (in a listed building and listed interior) is still very much open. It is at 14 Cockspur Street, the SW corner of T Square.

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Wireless Reader

I wasn't aware they had stopped them, HSBC certainly did them a few weeks ago and about a year ago I paid some money into an account i didn't even have the sort code or the account number for, just the person's name and address and the bank staff filled in the blank boxes from their computer screen (admittedly they didn't release that information to me but had no problem with it)

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Chris

Not so. I used a blank paying-in slip this afternoon paying in a cheque into a friends account at Lloyds TSB. No questions asked.

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T S Skogvold

This could be quite correct.

Not all Hx branches can accept BOS credits, though there are some 120 or so that can already do so. Those branches only attained that capability in the last few months or so.

Further, depending on the type of a/c you are trying to pay money into will determine your capacity to pay cash in. For example the Direct Business A/C does not support branch deposits at all, irrespective of payee.

MC

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"This BOS/Halifax identity crisis is a red herring. The real issue is paying cash into other people's accounts, and it's a problem no matter who the relevant bankers are.

You need a pre-printed paying-in slip for the payee's account. "

Absolute nonsense. You can deposit monies into a/cs w/ all the major banks w/ details of the s/c and a/c no. Blank slips are still available in banking halls and have been for some time. Naturally Barclays ones all have the first two digits of the sort code preprinted as 20-, etc etc.

Unusual transactions, whether by nature, volume or frequency may raise the suspicions of the staff and cause them to report their suspicions to their MLRO for consideration, but they will not refuse the credit!

I don't think it is fair to say HBOS have an identity crisis - the Halifax and BOS merged - they are one legal entity but still have vastly different brands in England and Scotland respectively. It is only because BOS want to enter the SME market in England (high time that monopoly was attacked with some sincerity!!!) that they have begun to merge their brands and hence initiated BOS counter services in HX branches.

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