The niqab

[FatAndFaithless]

Pragmatically, there are situations where this is untenable (e.g. motorcycle helmets in banks, balls out in public etc.) and here's where I think some exceptions should be applied. This causes problems where women refuse to take their veils off. We'd be effectively banning them from (for example) banks thus reducing their freedoms even further; not such a problem for every-day transactions which can be done on the internet but a problem for more complex, face-to-face transactions.

It's fine if the bank bans those types of face coverings on their private property, it wouldn't be the government doing it.