In 2010, the United States (US) Treasury announced the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). It is intended to prevent tax evasion by US citizens, residents and organisations through the use of offshore accounts and is a key change for international information exchange policy. Under FATCA, Financial Institutions must comply with a number of obligations, including reporting on accounts held by US persons, including organisations.

A number of governments, including the UK, have signed agreements to exchange data with the US. Triodos Bank must check customer records and accounts to identify US account holders and report information on them. To do this we introduced new procedures from 1 July 2014.

For more information please visit www.irs.gov or speak to your tax advisor.

To top up a Triodos cash ISA you can:

• Make an online payment from another account (either an account with another provider or another Triodos account that allows withdrawals).
• Send us a cheque if the Triodos cash ISA you want to top up accepts cheque.

The following accounts do not accept cheque payments:

• Online Cash ISA
• Fixed Rate Cash ISAs

If you want to deposit a cheque, please post it along with your account details or a paying-in slip to: ‘Freepost TRIODOS BANK’ (no stamp required)

The Triodos Bank sort code is 16-58-10 and you can find your Triodos cash ISA account number by logging in to your account online or via the Triodos Mobile Banking App, or by checking your bank statements.

Please note, if you have not paid into your ISA since 5 April 2022 you will need to declare your eligibility before transferring your money. For more information see Do I need to declare my ISA and how do I do this in Internet Banking?

If you wish to change the details of your nominated account, you must send us a signed, written instruction by post to:

Freepost TRIODOS BANK

Our freepost address is Royal Mail registered and simple to use - write it on your envelope exactly as shown above (no stamp required) and your letter will get to us free of charge by second class mail.

For first class mail, you can post in the normal way to:

Triodos Bank
Deanery Road
Bristol
BS1 5AS

You are not able to amend your nominated account using Internet Banking. The instruction must include the details of the new nominated account (including the account name, six digit sort code and eight digit account number) and must be signed in accordance with the signature form previously returned to us. For joint accounts, the instruction must be signed by both account holders.

The new nominated account must be a personal sterling account held in your name(s) with another UK bank/building society or an existing Triodos UK account that allows you to transfer in funds.

We will not be able to process any written instructions unless we hold your signature on our records.

If you have not returned the signature reply form enclosed with your welcome letter sent to you when you first opened the account, please do so with your request to amend your nominated account. We may send further documents for you to sign to your registered address with us or request documents from you as an additional security measure before we will process your request.

If you cannot locate the signature reply form and you are still living at the address we have on our records then please send us a Secure Message from within internet banking to request a signature reply form. We will send this to your registered address for you to return to us together with your written request to amend your nominated account. We may send further documents for you to sign to your registered address with us or request documents from you as an additional security measure before we will process your request.

If we do not hold a signature for you on our records and you have moved from the address we hold for you on our records you will need to write to us with your new address and nominated account details enclosing one document from list A and one document from list B.

A - Identity Verification:

• Valid Passport
• Valid full or provisional UK / EU Drivers licence photo card or full old-style driving licence
• Valid identity card (EEA Member state or equivalent)
• HM Revenue & Customs HMRC Tax notification only (statement of account or notice of coding relating to the current year)
  

B -  Address Verification:

• Original bank or building society statement showing recent transactions dated within the last 3 months  
• Valid full or provisional UK / EU Drivers licence photo card or full old-style driving licence
• Current Council tax bill dated within the last 12 months
• Utility Bill dated within the last 3 months (mobile phone or broadband statements not acceptable)
• Mortgage statement within the last 12 months
      HM Revenue & Customs correspondence relating to current tax year or dated within the last 3 months (whichever is earlier), must contain National Insurance Number

Normally instructions given in internet banking to make a payment from your Triodos Cash ISA, Triodos Saver or Charity Saver account will only be carried out after the expiry of the notice period on your account. Any attempt to schedule a payment before then will be rejected.

If for any reason you need to withdraw your money earlier than the notice period, you will need to write to us by post or secure message in internet banking.

We will charge you the interest due on the amount withdrawn for the part of your notice period for which you have not given notice. So if you withdraw £500 on 15 Calendar Days’ notice from an Account set up on 33 Calendar Days’ notice, then a charge equivalent to the interest you would have earned on that £500 for 18 Calendar Days (i.e. 33 - 15) will be deducted from your Account.

For Fixed Rate ISAs withdrawals are not allowed until maturity. The only exception to this is if you close the account and/or transfer the full balance to another ISA.  Early closure will result in an early access charge being applied equivalent to a number of days of interest.

2 year term – 180 days’ interest

3 year term – 270 days’ interest

The charge will be taken from the account balance, so you may get back less than originally deposited. In exceptional circumstances the early access charge can be waived at our discretion.

We ask you to complete an ISA declaration when making a choice for your maturing fixed rate cash ISA in Internet Banking so that you are able to make current tax year’s subscriptions to your ISA if you would like to.

You are not obliged to subscribe to that cash ISA after completing the declaration and can choose to subscribe to a different ISA if you want and you are eligible to do so (as long as you don’t breach the ISA rule of only subscribing to one of each type of ISA in a tax year).

A nominated account is an account in your name(s) with either another bank/building society, or an existing Triodos account that allows you to transfer funds.

You need a nominated account for when applying for one of our accounts online and your opening deposit must be made by electronic transfer from your nominated account. Also if you want to transfer money from your account online, you must do so to your nominated account.

To set up standing orders in the Triodos Mobile Banking App or Internet Banking, choose the account you wish the money to be taken from. Enter recipients’ details and the amount. Click the calendar icon next to the payment date to set the frequency of the payment and save your changes. Authorise the payment to complete the set up.

You can send money from your Personal savings account via Internet Banking or the Mobile App.

The daily limit is £20,000.00 per day for Personal savings account customers.

If you opened your Online Saver/ Online Saver Plus via the Mobile App and went through the ID and selfie check you can authorise payments up to £20,000 with your mobile passcode.

If you need to make a single payment over £20,000 you can request a temporary limit change, for more details click here.

No, you can only open or hold one account (joint or sole) in any 12 month period.

Once you have opened your Triodos Fixed Rate Cash ISA, you have 60 days in which to deposit as much of your ISA allowance as you want to. You can only subscribe to one cash ISA per tax year. If you do not deposit your full allowance in your Fixed Rate Cash ISA you can invest the remainder in any combination of the rest of the permitted ISA types, providing you only subscribe to one of each type in a tax year. You will therefore not be able to subscribe to any other cash ISA in the same tax year as you open your Triodos Fixed Rate Cash ISA.

When you log in to Internet Banking using the QR code reader in the Triodos Mobile App, you’ll then be able to authorise payments from your Personal Current Account under £250 with either your mobile passcode, Face ID or Touch ID. To authorise payments of £250 and above you’ll need to use your digipass.

If you opened an Online Saver or Online Saver Plus account using the Mobile App, then you can also authorise payments in Internet Banking with Mobile App.

We want to make it easier for you to use your account, while keeping it secure. So we’re gradually rolling out a number of improvements over the coming months, to give you more ways to authorise payments with enhanced security.

If you are a Personal Banking customer using the Triodos Mobile Banking App, you can change your address and personal details via the Mobile App under 'More' > 'Personal information'.

If you don't use the Triodos App, you can change your details in Internet Banking by going to ‘Self service’ > ‘Personal settings’. To set up the Triodos App for quicker access to make future changes, download the app from the App Store or Google Play.  

If you have a postal account you can write to us with your old and new address details, your account number, telephone number and a signature. We will send you confirmation when your details are changed.

This will depend on the type of payment.

For payments out of your account:

• Faster Payments will normally be received by the beneficiary within two hours of the payment being authorised but may take up to one business day.
• CHAPS payments authorised before 2.00pm on a business day will be received in the beneficiary account by the end of the day.
• The deadline for sending money outside the UK is 1.00pm, timings for these payments being received vary depending on where the funds are going to.  Please allow up to 10 business days for them to arrive if they are being sent outside of Europe.

 For payments into your account:

• Internal transfers will usually be received as soon as you submit the payment in internet banking.
• Faster Payments and Standing Orders usually arrive within one hour of being sent but can take up to one business day.
• CHAPS payments usually arrive within an hour of them being sent but can take until the end of the business day.
• Cheques sent in by post are available for withdrawal on the third business day after they were added to your account. For example, if you send a cheque to us by post, and it is paid into your account on a Wednesday (Transaction date or T), the funds will be available for withdrawal on Monday (T + 3), although they are not cleared funds until the end of the following Thursday (T + 6).

 Charges will apply for CHAPS and international payments.  Please see our Personal Banking tariff for current and savings accounts for details.

For more information about how much we’ll charge you for standard account services, please see our  Tariff of charges for personal customers.

All transactions, both to and from the Online Saver Plus or Online Saver accounts must be carried out by electronic transfer. As these are online only accounts, you cannot pay into your account by cheque. If any cheques are received by us, they will be returned to you. Funds relating to cheque deposit at R.B.S. /NatWest Bank will be returned by faster payments directly to the bank account on which they were drawn.

If your existing Triodos account is an online account, or if you've set up internet banking access, you can transfer money to an Online Saver Plus using internet banking (and subject to the notice period on that account). If you've not set up internet banking access for your existing Triodos account then you can either apply to do that below or alternatively please write to us with instructions for making the transfer.