NatWest and Lloyds Banking Group are to close a further 81 branches.
Lloyds Banking Group is closing 39 branches – 26 Lloyds Bank outlets, nine Halifax branches and four Bank of Scotland outlets – between July and September this year. NatWest Group said it was shutting 42 branches.
The moves come days after it emerged that Barclays was closing 14 more outlets.
Which? said yesterday that UK banks and building societies have now closed or announced the closure of 5,498 branches since January 2015, at a rate of 54 a month.
