According to Stand With Crypto, British consumers filed over 10,092 complaints about bank restrictions on cryptocurrency purchases between May and August, affecting 9,800 users across all 650 UK parliamentary constituencies. Lloyds Banking Group (including Halifax and Bank of Scotland) received 2,297 complaints, about 23% of the total, while Barclays and NatWest received 1,569 and 1,278 complaints respectively.
A separate report cited by Stand With Crypto found that approximately 40% of transfers to FCA-registered cryptocurrency exchanges in the UK were intercepted or delayed over the past 12 months.