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Farage debanking scandal spreads to shooting

BASC has written to Nikhil Rathi, chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), to provide evidence of sector-wide discrimination by many high street banks against shooting-related businesses for the FCA’s debanking review.

This follows an exposé in the Telegraph into widespread ‘debanking’ of the shooting community, using data collected by BASC. This has seen shooting businesses and shoots become victims of sudden, unexplained account closures, refusals of new applications, and difficulties with online payments, the use of card machines and applying for credit.

The survey showed that shooters are facing discrimination from banks, with members of the trade particularly affected. Responses from ordinary shooters, club members and shooting businesses