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Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
Guest Opinion
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Fairness in banking: heads they win, tails we lose

OPINION: The former managing director of Nikko AM recently learned of a small clause in the bowels of his mortgage lending documentation that he thought manifestly unfair.

George Carter Sun, 02 Jul 2023

The concept of fairness is one we all intuitively desire; we use phrases such as a ‘level playing field’ or ‘give and take’. We desire for rules and systems to be designed fairly and to not be structurally biased in favour of one person or another.

Of course, the world isn’t fair, and we

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George Carter Sun, 02 Jul 2023
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