A warning has been issued for anyone with a joint bank account over the so-called "death" of the account. U nder 35s are ditching them, figures show, and are turning their back on shared bank accounts.

They are instead finding new ways to divvy up joint costs, according to personal finance experts. Over the last six years, the proportion of joint current accounts held by under-35s has steadily dropped from 18% to 14%.

And the number of joint accounts grew overall from 12.4million to 13.9million, according to figures from credit agency Experian for The Sun newspaper.

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Dr Nisha Prakash, a lecturer in financial management from the University of East London, says: “The younger generation values financial in

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