The Mirror - Bank bans the Poor

GREEDY HSBC bosses were last night slammed for heaping yet more misery on their long-suffering customers.

The bank is already under fire for making record profits of £11BILLION last year while fleecing people with outrageous penalty charges.

Now it has decided to ban its ordinary, hard-working customers from a branch that will cater exclusively for the rich. And a bank spokesman twisted the knife by declaring yesterday: "Not everybody in the world is equal.

"Some people have higher incomes and need greater services through the bank.

These customers demand a better service."

The branch will only serve those who have savings of at least £50,000, a £200,000 mortgage or a £100,000 mortgage plus a £75,000 salary.

Ordinary customers can also receive the personal service - but only if they pay £19.95 a month to join the bank's Premier Service account.

Eddie Weatherall, of the Independent Banking Advisory Service, said last night: "It's outrageous.

People want to be able to walk into their local branch and talk to someone about their account.

"What is worse is the fact that banking is supposed to be a service industry. Instead they have been steadily removing the service we receive until it has almost disappeared. Services are being cut to make for record profits."

Customers who already bank at the HSBC - slogan the world's local bank - in the millionaires' playground of Poole, Dorset, will be forced to make other arrangements.

They will be able to use cashpoint and paying-in machines outside the branch. But if they want to be served personally, they must go to another branch a mile away.

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