{"id":44915,"date":"2014-11-06T07:05:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T12:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=44915"},"modified":"2014-11-06T07:05:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T12:05:51","slug":"crunch-time-for-britains-big-four-banks-as-competition-inquiry-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2014\/crunch-time-for-britains-big-four-banks-as-competition-inquiry-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Crunch time\u2019 for Britain\u2019s big four banks as competition inquiry launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; Britain\u2019s major banks are to be subjected to an 18-month investigation into how they treat their small business and personal customers in a move welcomed by consumer bodies and the new entrants trying to break the stranglehold of the \u201cbig four\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Chisholm, the head of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), is to embark on the most detailed analysis of the sector for a decade after concluding that customers are not getting a good enough deal from the major high street players. Major banks could be broken up and it could signal the end of free banking for current accounts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2014\/nov\/06\/britain-big-four-banks-competition-investigation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; Britain\u2019s major banks are to be subjected to an 18-month investigation into how they treat their small business and personal customers in a move welcomed by consumer bodies and the new entrants trying to break the stranglehold of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44917,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44915\/revisions\/44917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}