EBS Bank a/c

I moved to them in January and can confirm fees are zero for current account and debit card.

I find them good to deal with. Never a long wait if you need to use phone banking.

I did hear a few people saying they stopped taking on current accounts but not 100% on that.

Been with them a few months now and going well so far. I do miss my Ulster Bank app which was so easy to sign in to with Touch ID. A bit more of an effort to sign in to the EBS online banking. They do not have a specific app to view your account on so you have to sign in using a web browser (works on phone or computer). However, you need an app to authorise the login. Occasionally the app can be a bit glitchy but to me it's not a big issue.

The whole process of opening the account was pretty straightforward and as the previous poster said, they do answer their phones pretty quickly.

I have the Revolut app and also find it really good. I do the same as you - throw in some money from EBS and away I go! So convenient when abroad as well.

I contacted them on facebook. Sent them all my documents required to open the account. Once they were happy with the documents I did have to go to the branch to sign for the account and lodge a token amount. Then they gave me my IBAN with cards and online banking details to follow in the post. Took maybe 10 minutes.

Yeah read that alright. I'll take the free banking as long as its going 😆

Yeah the sort codes are AIB. I moved just before news of the review of operations. Maybe if people havent switched yet they should look into other options. Credit Union seems to be popular in the KBC and UB switch threads.

Only 1 way to find out. Message them on facebook and see what they say.

Personally even though they are reviewing their current account operations I would still switch to them and get the free banking as long as its on offer 😆. The switch went easy for me. Just a few direct debits and incoming payments to update. I left my old UB account open until I saw all the payments move over then close my UB account in the UB app.

You add the money from EBS debit card in the Revolut app, you then open the EBS Card app and approve the payment with your phone security. Then you go back to Revolut and the money is there.

When I went looking a few weeks back as I was a KBC customer I definitely considered EBS. If you're not very tech savvy then on paper they're great, think there is (used to be?) a limit of 5 free ATM withdrawls a month but cashback in shops in free and unlimited

Not if you keep within the above limits

To me this is a bit strange. If you had your wages going into EBS and there's an issue at least you could get someone on the phone quickly or visit a branch. Or are you planning to go Revolut only and close out the EBS account at some stage?

i was in today in D7 and they said they still do the account, takes 2 visits to set up they said

Will give yis a good one, last month I had a notification that my Evernote account got hacked, someone in Germany got in to it. There was some EBS login stuff in there (not all though) but as a precaution I rang them to put a stop on my card. It was the weekend so the only working phone number was for reporting cards lost or stolen, I think it wasnt actually EBS but some Mastercard agent.

Anyway I asked for a block, she said no probs and I clarified that I could unblock it Monday morning. Come Monday rang EBS proper and it turned out my card was invalidated instead of temporarily blocked and Id have to get a new one. Was a bit annoyed and said it to them, she asked me did I want to complain about it officially (which was strange hearing a bank offering for you to complain). Said go on I will just so it doesnt happen again to me or others. 10 days later got an EBS letter saying they were looking into it and then just yesterday got another letter apologising AND saying that they are logding 75 euro to my account by way of apology. After years of dealing with the gruffness of AIB and BOI I nearly fell off my seat reading it.

yeah you can't put any details on a transfer, any transfers in don't take the details from revolut so that's very annoying! For that reason I use revolut for day to day stuff and just put money in EBS to keep it out of reach....it's good for that :-D