Natwest
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Goodbye unfair banking
Banks have been responding in interesting ways to their unpopularity. This of course was brought about by a series of largely self-inflicted wounds: the credit crunch, computer lapses, PPI and investments mis-selling, indefensible banker bonuses and so on. And the last couple of weeks we have the spectacle of HSBC money laundering in Switzerland. Banks…
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A NatWest turkey, Smirnoff, and some predictions for 09
My most hated ad of the year: the scene is a Liverpool branch of NatWest where customers find themselves being offered “Money Sense”advice on managing their budgets by pleasant down to earth staff. Yep, this is the same NatWest that’s owned by RBS — who as early as August were revealing the then biggest loss…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 