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UK bank Lloyds TSB rips off customers with huge new overdraft charges

UK bank Lloyds TSB rips off customers with huge new overdraft charges

By Stephen Foster on July 19, 2012

Lloyds TSB (41 per cent owned by UK taxpayers, which include me) has sent customers of its Premier Account (which also include me) a note about ‘important changes’ to the aforementioned account (for which I pay about £10 a month), supposedly to our benefit. And what does paragraph two say? I quote: From 2 October [...]

Posted in Clients, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged Antonio Horta-Osorio, co-op bank, George Parker, hbos, Lloyds TSB, overdraft charges, premier account

Why has Andy Hornby quit as boss of resurgent Boots?

Why has Andy Hornby quit as boss of resurgent Boots?

By Stephen Foster on March 25, 2011

Well Andy Hornby, a former protege of Allan Leighton at Asda along with Sainsbury’s Justin King and others, probably deserves a break after being crucified in the banking crash of 2008 (he ran HBOS which collapsed owing twenty-odd billion) and then doing a sterling job at Alliance Boots which drove revenues up to nearly £9bn [...]

Posted in Clients, Finance, News | Tagged Allan Leighton, alliance boots, Andy Hornby, Asda, hbos, Jesse Boot, Justin King, kkr, nottingham, Peter Cummings, Sainsburys, Stefano Pessina

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