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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Chris Blackhurst

A challenge to the impersonal nightmare of today’s banking

Like clockwork, a notice drops in my email, telling me there are documents I need to sign. It’s from a well-known UK bank, one of the biggest and best-known, and is a hangover from when I was trying to open a business account.

The experience was a nightmare, sheer torture, leading to frustration, blood boiling… words that do not even begin to encapsulate the sheer difficulty of negotiating their system. Could I get beyond first base? Not a hope.

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