Merryn Somerset-Webb

If only more banks were more like Wonga

There’s an unlikely new role model for sellers of savings products

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issue 05 October 2013
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I know a lot of people who work in the financial industry. One on one, they are decent and kind. I’d trust them to look after my handbag in the pub while I went to the Ladies. But you know what? I wouldn’t trust many of them to look after my pension or my ISA.

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