Yes but they cannot except international payments so they do not have an IBAN number which inky fans needs.  Has anyone used suits me just so a bank account

You are right

if a SW wrote to the bank and claimed it was a form of sexual discrimination and that in light of the Nat West Nigel Farage PR disaster they should reconsider their actions I think they'd reinstate the account.
They may have the letter of the law of their side but in the current climate I don't believe this is a battle they want to fight.

If you don’t provide your full name, an industry-wide security feature called Confirmation of Payee might flag the payment as a mismatch.

If you’ve given a customer your trading name instead, they might receive an alert before they make the payment. The alert tells them the name you’ve given them doesn’t match what your bank has on record, which might delay you being paid

I had a Tide business bank account and was okay for about 3 months. However, randomly after I’d deposited cash (£1200 nothing too crazy) and tried to transfer it to myself. It flagged it and put a pause on my account and I had to wait 48 hours to be contacted to which point they asked me lots of questions about my ‘business’ asked for website address, hmrc confirmation etc. Then turned around and closed my account.

Luckily, I’d read on Trustpilot that this has happened to a lot of accounts and someone had written about transferring the account balance in small amounts to your personal/other account and it bypasses the account pause. This worked for me so luckily I didn’t have to go without the money in the account.

The thing is indeed paying for AdultWork, Vivastreet, Kommons or any other site qualified by MasterCard and Visa as "dating site". The bank might be OK, but when either card network detects such payments, they flag it to the bank to enquire... as their terms and conditions [with the bank] include "nothing related to adult entertainment".

So this usually leads to closure of the account (with a long period freezing the assets before they release them to you), as no bank would want to lose Mastercard or Visa accreditation.

Is that illegal for those payment networks to act that way? Yes in the UK. But not in other countries. Now good luck going to justice against MasterCard/Visa.

I've already lost 2 business accounts that way (Tide, Anna). Seriously thinking about trying a proper "brick and mortar" bank for a change

Have you tried MONESE?

I have found them quite good with payments (receiving and making).


The only thing with brick and mortar banks are that they are disappearing from the High Streets so you might struggle to deposit cash on a regular basis. 

NatWest is completely gone from anywhere near me in NW London.  The post office is the only deposit point.

With Monese can you pay in at Paysafe? I notice UK is not listed in the supported countries list.