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No sacred cows

How do you solve a problem like debanking?

8 July 2023

9:00 AM

8 July 2023

9:00 AM

As I sat down to write this column, an old friend let me know he’d just been ‘debanked’. That is, he’d received a letter from his high-street bank notifying him it was closing his accounts. ‘Following a review, we’ve made the decision that you will not be able to bank with us any longer,’ it said, not even bothering to put the word ‘difficult’ before ‘decision’.

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