I have a Lloyds account and I've sent to Coinbase without any trouble. It was all of £10.
Read the article. It's about credit cards and most other banks have done the same. Transfers are fine. I can't remember what I put in the name field but I also don't remember having any trouble with that.
Coinbase were banking with Barclays but their faster payments seem to on hold for now to Coinbase Pro at least.
Yeah Coinbase works pretty nice for Europe, we have yet to see how would that platform for the U.S. work.
I think that i saw this question before, it's pretty simple to do in those developed countries. For everything else localbitcoins do wonders.