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I worked in debt recovery for many years and acted for the John Lewis Partnership, who sold their store account business to HFC Bank in 2003. HFC is a subsidiary of HSBC and immediately on taking over the business the bank started adding illegal charges to accounts in default. A new company, John Lewis Financial Services Limited was created and without changing any terms and conditions in the credit agreements HSBC began adding 16.4% of the debt when the account was passed to... solicitors for collection. So, on a £10,000 debt the bank added £1,640 to cover their legal cost accountings, regardless of how much work was done by their solicitors.
In 2010 the Office of Fair Trading made an order against the bank telling them to stop adding the charges. The order was dated 17 November 2010 but not made public. On 16 November 2010 it was announced that David Cameron was going to make HSBC Chair Stephen Green a Lord –








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