Abbey's New Sales Drive
It seems that Abbey is going to start pushing its savings products in a new sales drive.
It is reported that this sales drive will be launched despite the fact that Abbey has increased its provisions for mis-selling by £154M.
The new CEO, Francisco Gomez-Roldan, has stated that he will introduce a new incentive scheme and impose minimum sales targets on branch staff.
It seems that not everyone is happy with this new sales drive; Marianne Fitzjohn, a director of Endowment Justice, is reported to have said:
"Abbey has an appalling record for mis-selling and its handling of complaints has been equally shabby. I'm very concerned to see this heavy drive on sales..."
Abbey National was fined £1M by the Financial Services Authority in 2002, for mis-selling mortgage endowments to over 40000 customers. Then, for good measure, it was fined over £2M a year later for compliance failings.
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