VIC:Bank customers voice beefs at forum

AAP General News (Australia)
12-15-2010
VIC:Bank customers voice beefs at forum

Bank customers and former employees have vented their frustrations with the big four
at a consumer forum in Melbourne today.

While executives and politicians battled it out at a Senate inquiry in Canberra ..

customers were voicing their bank beefs at a forum run by consumer group CHOICE at the
State Library of Victoria.

They were luke warm about Treasurer WAYNE SWAN's package to increase competition in
the banking sector.

Second tier banks like Bankwest received some criticism .. but got much better reviews
than larger institutions.

CHOICE is holding more public forums on banks in Perth .. Darwin and Canberra and will
present consumers' stories to the Senate inquiry on February 9 next year.

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KEYWORD: BANKS CONSUMERS (MELBOURNE)

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