# Ethical Banking for Co-operatives **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** coops\ **Created:** [19 March 2018 14:06 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/ethical-banking-for-co-operatives/664 "2018-03-19T14:06:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 47
**Author:** ![jdaviescoates](https://community.coops.tech/user_avatar/community.coops.tech/jdaviescoates/32/223_2.png) [@jdaviescoates](https://community.coops.tech/u/jdaviescoates)\ **Post date:** [16 September 2020 11:30 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/ethical-banking-for-co-operatives/664/47 "2020-09-16T11:30:45Z")
> [@LeoSammallahti](#): > > Nationwide Building Society is about to launch business accounts later this year. Sadly they’ve now scrapped those plans, see: > [@Business Banking Recommendations?](https://community.coops.tech/t/business-banking-recommendations/2215/12): > > I was going to say that I’m looking forward to Nationwide launching their business accounts (imho they are the best for personal accounts, all things considered), but alas I’ve just read [they’ve now scrapped those plans](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-nationwide/britains-nationwide-scraps-business-banking-plans-idUSKBN21L0QN) frowning So now I think the best currently widely available option is now Starling Bank, see my recent post on the other thread about all this for reasons why: > [@Business Banking Recommendations?](https://community.coops.tech/t/business-banking-recommendations/2215/16): > > Having just read the latest Ethical Consumer report on current accounts, United Diversity are going to be switching from Santander (we opened the account when they were still Abbey National building society) to [Starling Bank](https://www.starlingbank.com/). [ethical\_consumer\_current\_accounts] As you can see from the table above Triodos are the most ethical. But they charge for everything and don’t do debit cards (if I remember correctly). Cumberland Building Society are the next best, but you can only open an account with… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.coops.tech/t/ethical-banking-for-co-operatives/664)._