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Our Ethical Policy | The Co-operative Bank The Co-operative Bank is the only UK Bank with a customer-led Ethical Policy. Find out more about the Ethical Policy that underpins how we run our business.

So, I'm glad to be hitching my wagon to a bank that is more aligned with my own values. I ought to have made it a priority a bit sooner.

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I'd like it known that I have never even been to Colchester. That guy just has the same name as me. I've been called a lot of things but never a "significant risk" to the public. Apparently Santander's due diligence involves a cursory Google search.

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Those conversations made it abundantly clear that they had no idea who they were dealing with, so much so that I was sheepishly asked to confirm that I have not been to prison and am not the "crazed gunman" mentioned in a report in the Colchester Gazette in 2008.

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Santander, by contrast, were a little more hands-on, but only a little. When I applied for a new business savings account a couple of years back, I had to have two telephone interviews, despite having already had an account with them for more than a decade at that time.

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Nowadays, it's all online and my only interaction with Co-op so far has been via a web portal. Fair enough. Helping organisations to use the internet to streamline their business processes is my bread and butter, so I can't very well complain that it lacks the personal touch.

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Opening a bank account these days is very different to when we opened our first one in 1999 and I had to put on a suit and have a meeting with an account manager and explain our (let's be honest) wildly optimistic business plan.

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I've thought for a long time that we should be moving to the Co-op but changing bank accounts is a faff, isn't it? But Santander forced my hand somewhat by announcing out of the blue that they are "changing" our account, which apparently is a euphemism for charging more money.

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Virtue signalling alert! We have moved our account to the Co-operative Bank, which is committed to working with companies that support their community and never financing the companies that pollute our planet, fail to protect human rights or discriminate in their employment policies.

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Star Wars Intro Scroll Episode IV It Was All So Stupid Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was. Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff by the absolute worst people. And what made it worse was knowing that we’d brought this on ourselves.

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A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are walking by a window, turning to admire the glass. Blue: I like that wavy kind of old window glass. Green: Maybe one day they will start making fake antique glass for the aesthetic. A vision of the foxes in the future, small and elderly, looking at a similar window. Blue is frowning at it. Green, narrating: And you'll learn to spot it and grumble about how it's not real antique glass like when you were a boy. The elderly foxes walk on, Blue still looks grumpy. Green, continuing to narrate: And I would ask you "would you prefer if it was just boring regular glass?" and you would say "no, I would prefer the real deal." Blue looks at Green in confusion as Green kisses him. Blue: Your visions of the future sound bleak. Green: I'd rather spend it bickering with you than in any way without you.

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