ME Bank sinks into disasterous blunder

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Via Banking Day:

The customer relations crisis now engulfing Members Equity Bank is exposing much more than a breakdown in communication with home borrowers – it is also opening a window to a crude and inadequate approach to risk management.

While the bank acknowledges that it failed to properly give customers notice that their capacity to redraw on their home loans would reduce from 27 April, it is sticking by its rhetorical defence that it was done “with the best intentions”.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.