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What about onlinebanks? Also a hard no?
Why will a kid need to open an online bank account?
I mean there are plenty of legitimate reasons. If you want to give your child financial autonomy so that it can learn to budget, I think an online bank account may be a good idea.
But I don't get the OPs point though, many banks offer adult-managed accounts until majority that only need an ID, not a face scan.
Because some day they will be an adult who needs to know how to do things like buy groceries and pump gas. Hell, a 16 year old can have a car and a job, but not be allowed to pay for anything?
edit: that said , I'll be using AI generated faces for everything.
Get a regular bank account
I feel like you don't understand the meaning of the word "ever."
Don't know how this works in UK - In Poland there are other ways of signing into/registering in banking.
Have an adult handle the account. Simple as. They set it up and manage the account to ensure their kids privacy to as much of a degree as they can.
Go to a branch and set the account up there. No reason they'd need your face. Bonus point of using a local bank: they have to worry about their customers doing a domestic terrorism on them if they fuck them over somehow. So they have more incentive to not do that.