[svcw]

Nope. I closed three account when Washington Mutual went to CitiBank, no problem at all but that was then and not now.
I do have a joint account with my adult daughter, and the bank said I could not take my name off the account. We would have to close it and she could open a new one.
I found that to be weird, they said under the new banking regulations they are not permitted to do what was normal three years ago.

[Sacajaweau]

Nothing weird about it. That’s the way it has been done for as long as I remember....about 50 years.

[sheana]

Same here I had a small account that we went in and added my mom on so that her SS checks could be auto deposited. When she passed on I went down to take her off andtheyy closed the account and reopened another one. Told me that was the only way to do it.

[SuziQ]

I found that to be weird, they said under the new banking regulations they are not permitted to do what was normal three years ago.

You can blame "Dodd-Frank" for that.

[JayNorth]

...when Washington Mutual went to Citibank...

WM went to Pursue, not Citibank. Or as I call them "Evil Chase" and I, too, closed all my accounts after that middle-of-the-night coup d'bank. Chase stinks.