Millions of people have switched their main bank using the Current Account Switch Service (CASS) – it’s free, easy and can move you, your money and your payments from one bank to another in around a week or so.
Usually, though, people aren’t just moving for the fun of it, of course: banks and building societies have a pretty fierce battle for your custom and so, from time to time, some will offer incentives to switch to them worth hundreds of pounds.
