I was wondering are there standard practices for opening a bank account? I ask because I was thinking of opening an account with ulsterbank and along with the standard IDs, they said I'd need to provide a bank statement or printout from my account with another bank so that they could see that it was a healthy account and to keep it on record. They also stated that if it was a standard current account I wanted that I need to bring my passport too as well as my licence. I have no debt problems or history of problems so all this jumping through hoops just to keep some of my money with them seems a bit mad as well as an invasion of privacy. Also do all bank not accept mobile phone bill as proof of address as they said they would only accept land line/utility bill. So do these seem like normal practices on their part? Thanks