Virtue-signalling banks and councils are conspiring in the death of the high street
The demise of Wilkinson – or Wilko as it has come to be affectionately known – is emblematic of the...
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NatWest imposes new cash limits as latest de-banking row suggests push towards cashless society
NatWest has granted itself “sweeping new powers” to limit cash deposits and withdrawals, fuelling warnings that banks are forcing customers...
Shawbrook vies for huge £3.5bn Co-operative Bank merger
A merger with Shawbrook, which has a large base of small business customers, and also caters to real estate agents and...
Gun clubs’ accounts shut as banks ‘cancel the countryside’
Banks are trying to “cancel the countryside”, a senior MP has said, as The Telegraph can reveal gun clubs are...
Hunts banned from taking card payments in latest example of de-banking
They had been using the service for about a year, having registered as the hunt supporters club and passed the...
Savers have no right to complain about ‘poor’ bank interest rates
This is important not just because it offends people’s sense of fair play, and taps into a deeper narrative of...
Financial Conduct Authority must be investigated over failure to tackle de-banking, chancellor told
Jeremy Hunt has been urged to investigate the banking regulator as part of the drive to “restore integrity” after the...
Britain’s security at risk from virtue-signalling banks, ministers warn
Britain’s long-term security has been put at risk by the City shunning defence companies over misplaced ethical concerns, ministers have...
Banks must be made to realise they are here to serve the people, not their own pockets
Yet the thing about banks in particular is that though they behave as if they were free enterprise, commercial organisations...
‘I’m leaving NatWest after 20 years for what they did to Nigel Farage’
“I told them that I was leaving them because their values did not match mine – which is what NatWest...
