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Oct 6, 2016

Great banking services don’t have to cost the earth

I’d always thought that I was happy with my bank. When I opened my HSBC student account in 1998 they gave me a nice big overdraft, a credit card and even £60 in cash. After I graduated they offered me a fantastic rate on a graduate loan and…

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Oct 6, 2016

Payment to rip-off customers: the Commission Scandal

The FSA report out yesterday revealed the role of commission-based sales in driving the aggressive sales culture that has contributed to the recent slew of mis-selling scandals such as PPI and interest rate swaps.

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Oct 5, 2016

Dear Mr Gulliver: Why I’m leaving HSBC

Neva Frecheville, 30, works as an international development policy officer for WWF. She believes that people have the power to be more than just consumers, they can be citizens who affect the way in which the world works, and in this letter she explain to the…

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Oct 4, 2016

Guest Blog: Inside of HBOS — ex-employee exposes life on the sales floor

J C Willis worked at HBOS, a subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group before the crash. Here she writes on the unscrupulous culture of upselling, and the reality of life on the sales floor.

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Sep 29, 2016

‘Mr Ethical’ guest blog: Wonga VS HSBC Fraud — A Question of Media Framing

As an HSBC whistleblower, I have been bemused and frustrated by recent media hysteria over the scandal of Wonga sending out letters from fake law firms to customers struggling with debt. Adding, in some…

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May 24, 2016

Guest blog: The Ditch Coal Speaking Tour — The realities of coal mining in Russia

Yesterday, Move Your Money met with Vladimir Slivyak, a coal campaigner from Ecodefense in Russia, to discuss how we can organise transnationally against coal, the companies which mine it…

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Mar 14, 2016

Letter to Stuart Gulliver, CEO of HSBC

Below is the full text of our letter to HSBC CEO Stuart Gulliver (also being delivered to John Laidlow, BankTrack’s contact at HSBC, and Simon Martin, Head of Group Corporate Sustainability), which you can send using our tool on the Quit Coal campaign page. All…