Following the Government’s announcement last month that billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money will be pumped into the UK’s struggling banks, consumer group, Which? says now is the time for banks to help out consumers.The group, which has introduced a new campaign to reform banking, said the Government must ensure that the banks are putting [...]

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Which? has nice sentiment but in the commercial world banks are primarily there to help themselves and greed is a basic aspect of human nature, that is not going to change, one thing that can be done is to impose constraints on the way banks behave, tighten up on their the codes of conduct and give the banking ombudsman some real power