Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank

Whether you're starting up a new business or considering changing your business banking arrangements to a new bank, Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank offers a compelling selection of business bank accounts with market leading features.

Free Business Current Account

No other UK business bank account includes more for free than the Free Business Current Account from A&L Commercial Bank.

It offers a great range of money saving benefits such as free standard non-cash transactions including:

- free & unlimited cheque deposits
- free & unlimited outbound cheques
- free & unlimited transfers via standing order, direct debit & BACS

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The Free Business Current Account also allows up to £4,000 of cash deposits each month without charge. Cash and cheques can be deposited and other banking transactions carried out at any Post Office in the UK - of which there are 14,000 to choose from.

Business Builder Current Account

Alliance & Leicester's award winning Business Builder Current Account aims to offer the best current account for new, start-up businesses.

Benefits of this special start-up bank account include:

- two years completely free business banking
- no transaction charges
- no minimum balance requirement

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There's also free business guidance plus legal and tax advice. After two years, customers are transferred to the Free Business Current Account (see above), which continues to offer highly competitive features and rates.

The Business Builder Current Account is available to businesses that have been trading for less than six months and that will have a turnover of less than £500,000 during the free banking period.

BT Tradespace - free to join

Whether your business is brand new or well established, you can sign up free for BT Tradespace Basic, which can help you to network and promote your business - even if you already have a website. More:

Personal bank accounts from Alliance & Leicester

As an aside, it's worth noting that Alliance & Leicester's personal current accounts have won a host of awards between 2003 and 2007 from leading banking industry observers.

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