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I was switching to that Up Bank (by Bendigo), but they straight refuse to let me fund my crypto account, so that's out because I just want basic control of my own money.

I also have a Bank Australia account, but, while they like to pat themselves on the back about sustainability, their service and product is crap, imo.

So what else you got?

Edit: Just realised I should probably have posted this to AusFinance, but ah well!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We've previously had a mortgage with Bank Australia and they were probably one of the worst in terms of the high interest rates they charged.

Everything came to a head recently when we tried to borrow some additional funds to purchase a new house. We'd signed a contract subject to 14 days finance and once we called Bank Australia they told us it would be 5 - 6 weeks before they could approve anything and would not even be able to start looking at anything for over a week.

Called our broker who got on to Macquarie and they had a valuer out at the property at 9am the next morning to start the approvals process.

Would never, ever use or recommend Bank Aus to anyone.