Thousands switchers after bonusrel ABN and ING – Wedding

J. Kleinnijenhuis – 04/22/15, 6:00

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Thousands of new customers have reported in recent weeks at ASN Bank. Reason: the outcry over the driver salaries at ABN Amro and ING. Earlier it was announced that Triodos also got a lot more new registrations due to bonusrel. And then this week is also proclaimed national I-get-over-by-bank week.

• People want to see a change in the banking world.

  Ewoud Goudswaard, Director of ASN Bank

According to director Ewoud Goudswaard ASN notify customers when his bank as “expression of dissatisfaction. “People want to see a change in the banking world. They want banks more involved in the community, more attention to the customer and be transparent about what happens to their money.”

Since the financial crisis of 2008, especially the small, presenting itself as a sustainable bank Triodos and ASN grown. ASN welcomed since 2009 nearly 200,000 additional customers, Triodos even 400,000. Both banks had the end of 2014 more than 600,000 customers.

The fuss about the salaries led ASN to hundreds of new customers every day, says Goudswaard. He is delighted with the new recruits, but is concerned about the lack of confidence in the financial sector. “Banks are already seven years of negative news, which is very bad for your confidence. Then help such a new discussion about bonuses along of course not.”

Today Goudswaard for cameras RTLZ along with writer Rutger Bregman who took the initiative to call on people just to exchange this week bench. When Correspondent Bregman writes:

“For years I take for me to switch from bank about yet is it still not come only from people on the move as they feel that they are not alone It is, in short.. Time for a national “I Step On Bank Of Week.”

The action will find much resonance in social media: #ikstapovervanbank has been trending topic on Twitter for days. In RTLZ hopes to convince ASN director Goudswaard people that change is less difficult than they think.

“Customers think that change takes time, and that is to some extent true. But through the switching service offered by banks, we take them a lot of work.” Through this transition service remain the automatic debits and debits still continue for some time, so you do not immediately have rent arrears or your salary goes wrong with a new bank account.

What would really help to the hassle of changing banks reduce, it is possible to make your move to your new bank account with. Just as you now of phone provider may change while maintaining your own number. In banks there for years advocated, but it seems just not to come. “We are very supportive of it,” says Goudswaard. “But it can not be realized overnight. It is a major technical operation that many banks will cost money.”

The introduction of the European Iban account number has not been made easier, as the ‘old’ account numbers now are directly linked to a bank and a country. “So it is rather something to do on a European scale than in the Netherlands,” says Goudswaard, who admits that the chance of that happening is not very large.