went to Mosley st branch today's very pleasant experience from Sadiyah at the counter. what a…read morelovely lady she was. made me feel very welcoming and made conversation which I find nice. thank you again Sadiyah

One of three branches in the city centre, this is probably my favourite out of the three (Given the…read morequality of Barclays' branches overall that doesn't say much). The location on Mosley Street is in between Piccadilly Gardens and St Peter's Square. The bank is open between 9:30 am and 4:30 pm weekdays, opening half an hour later on Wednesday's. I do find it frustrating that they close their counter service an hour early, and do not open at all on weekends, as the opening hours generally see them close earlier than most banks around the city centre anyway. Despite claiming to have indoor ATM's online, they do NOT. They do have some banking machines in branch, where you can withdraw cash, but these are different machines to ATM's, as a friendly employee explained to me. As someone who hates using outdoor ATM's, this is a deal-breaker for me. 3* - Basic bank, reasonable location yet still leaving me regretful of joining Barclays in the first place.

Crunch really helped me with my business start up, including the set up of my limited company and…read morebusiness bank account. Their online accounting system is intuitive, highly available and incredibly easy to use. I'd definitely recommend Crunch to anyone looking for an accountant with excellent customer service as their focus.

Santander is one of the many banks in Manchester city centre, originally founded in Santander (a…read moreSpanish city) in 1857, before coming to the UK in 2010 (with banks branded as Santander), after the bank taken over Abbey. This particular branch, is relatively small compared to other banks in the city centre such as Halifax and Barclays, but still it is a reasonable size to be able to do your basic banking needs. This branch isn't as nice as the likes of Halifax and Lloyds, but it still basically does a job as a "local bank", but still you expect that little bit more in the center of a big town, like Manchester. With a poor situation regarding my current bank, my main purpose of visiting Santander today was to enquire about joining them, I found the rates very poor, and to offer me 1/4 of what Halifax and lloyds had offered, with no other services to make it worth loosing out on their offer, it just seemed to be below average account, at non-competitive prices. The person who served me, did seem to understand me and what I was after, but still she could have made more of a personal connection, which basically to me made me feel like the staff were simply average here. This bank looks a little old fashioned from the outside too, which makes it look closed from a distance, and in my opinion in such a busy place in a large town, they need to make their shop stand out, as competition is huge in an area like Manchester, and with it being near enough directly next to or opposite Halifax and Barclays, people are just going to go there, unless they make their bank look great, and stand out. As I said earlier, this isn't the nicest of banks but basically serves as a "local" bank for Santander customers, but I would recommend going elsewhere for your cash if you are with another bank, such as Halifax or Lloyds for example. UPDATE: Due to a recent issue with a cash machine outside, where i felt like my card could have been compromised due to the complicated nature of the cash machine, firstly having to select between languages which no other cash machine in Manchester I've seen offers, but then the cash machine was just poor, hard to use and after queuing up, I had to queue up elsewhere due to the complicated and "Dangerous" nature of the machine in general, I feel because of this the bank deserves a downgrade to a single one star and this had put me off becoming a member of Santander. UPDATE: A cool improvement with the indoor cash machines and the range of unique services it offers such as emailing receipts to Santander customers, I feel the need to upgrade this branch to a two-star rating, the staff seemed helpful enough but the service was still slow and the amount of cash machines inside the branch (3) really isn't good enough for a city center branch.

Natwest are of the major banks in the UK, part of the RBS banking group, they have 5 stores in…read moreManchester city centre, all within a one-mile radius of this branch, and if you expand onto a four mile radius of this branch including the branches in the city centre, there are ten stores which shows Natwest's dominance on the banking scene, let's compare this to Halifax, who as far as Im aware only have two city centre locations. Moving onto my regular review - This is not only one of the poorer Natwest stores I have visited out of the three I've visited in Manchester city centre, but I'd even go as far as to say this is the worst branch I have visited since I joined them as a customer which includes branches in Manchester City Centre, Manchester Spinningfields, Oldham and Middleton, and I could perhaps be missing other branches out too. The branch just seemed old fashioned and dark, it had virtually no tech such as machines to pay in money, which all other Natwest branches I have visited so far so, which certainly isn't good enough for a location in Manchester city centre, spite the fact it isn't their main city centre branch and is neither the largest or in the most central location, yet I still expect better. The staff just seemed rude, the card reader where you put in your chip and pin seemed old fashioned, and when I tried to stretch it out to reach, the member of staff was constantly aggressive, telling me to put it back. She also seemed rude when my card wouldn't go through, asking me to wipe it and that originally failed, she seemed rather impatient, rude and it felt like she wanted to be anywhere but working, I felt as welcomed as a Manchester City or United fan would be in Liverpool (Although to be fair when I went to Liverpool away at Anfield, all the stewards were really friendly!) Ever since I joined Natwest, I've been quite impressed with their stores, finding them to be in good locations. good number and quite good in terms of technology, the service has been okay, sadly this branch does not meet any of my expectations and falls short of the Natwest brand, which shows so much must have changed for the worse, since this place was last reviewed and given 5 stars by two reviewers, nearly 8 years ago.

I have been with Natwest for over ten years now and I can honestly say they are the best bank I…read morehave dealt with. They were great whilst I was a student and I have now secured a mortgage through them. I cannot recommend them to you enough. If you're not with Natwest and your thinking of changing banks do it! This branch is really handy if your in town and you need money but have forgot your card. You regularly see me running in in a panic fumbling around in my bag!