Dozens of councils that banked with the Co-op are facing months of upheaval and additional costs while they re-tender their banking contracts.
The Co-op announced last year that it would stop providing banking services to its local authority clients to focus its attention on individual and small- to medium-sized business customers.
In total, the Co-op had 35% of the market share of local authority transactional banking contracts.
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