We cannot allow our communities to become banking deserts

https://www.devonlive.com/news/news-opinion/cannot-allow-communities-become-banking-8325822

#Devon #Axminster #Sidmouth #Honiton #Banking #BankClosures #Community #CommunityBankingHubs #BankingHubs #ProfitBeforeService

Unlike other banks, #HSBC branches look more like a video arcade. No desks & no cashiers. Just a space accommodating big black computer boxes with a figure waiting to provide help. Most impersonal atmosphere I've witnessed.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/30/hsbc-shut-114-branches-customers-bank-online

#BankClosures

Australia's banks have been having a party since the Albanese Government released the Regional Banking Taskforce report. The flood gates have been opened. #auspol #bankclosures https://www.theregional.com.au/post/banking-taskforce-report-opens-the-gates-for-mass-closures

Have you ever thought about the economic impact of taking banks out of a vast geographical area like regional Australia? Dale Webster spent a year counting every bank outside the capital cities so she could investigate the question of what happens to cash use in bank deserts. #auspol #economics #banking #bankclosures #cash
https://www.theregional.com.au/post/big-four-banks-casting-a-dangerous-shadow-in-regional-australia