ME Bank invites a run on itself

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Via Adele Ferguson on the weekend:

The boutique bank owned by the industry superannuation sector has blindsided its customers by removing cash from accounts linked to home loans during a pandemic that has increased financial uncertainty.

Members Equity Bank, which is owned by 26 major super funds linked to big unions and markets itself as one of the country’s most trusted lenders, stunned customers on Monday when it, without permission, removed funds from redraw facilities to pay down home loans.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.