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When Bank of Ireland is not Bank of Ireland

sitstill · 2010-02-22 12:43:40

I have an account in BOI in Dundrum. Last week I was in Belfast and I tried to lodge BOI Sterling notes into my account in a branch up there. I was told I could not do so. Is the BOI in the North not the same company or something?

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22-02-2010 1:43pm

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sitstill

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I have an account in BOI in Dundrum.

Last week I was in Belfast and I tried to lodge BOI Sterling notes into my account in a branch up there. I was told I could not do so. Is the BOI in the North not the same company or something?

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#2 22-02-2010 2:25pm
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Same company, separate subsidiaries. No different than trying to walk into First Trust and lodge into your AIB account - it can't be done. They share a common owner, but operate under two different banking regimes (UK and Irish). You can't walk into BOI here and lodge directly to a NI/UK Bank of Ireland account either.

In the same way to can't make a lodgement into an Irish Bank account from the UK with just the sort code and account number or vice versa (despite both countries using an identical format).

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