Bank of Dave: How I Took On the Banks

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Dave Fishwick knows nothing about banking. He has no qualifications. He's nothing like a banker. What could possibly go wrong This is the real story that inspired the Netflix film, Bank of Dave. Dave Fishwick is a self-made, straight-talking man from Burnley who hates the banks. Fed up with never-ending tales of greed and corruption, he sets out to prove that there is a different way of doing things - by opening his own bank to help inject much-needed life into local businesses. In his bid to set up a simple, no-nonsense bank that actually cares about its customers, Dave plans to use hundreds of thousands of pounds of his own money. His enterprise will offer his customers a far better rate of interest than they get on the high street; he will lend to struggling local businesses that the banks don't want to know about; and he aims to bring the Bank of Dave into profit within 180 days. If he succeeds, he'll give whatever he makes to charity. If he fails, he'll make a terrible loss and ruin his hard-earned reputation as a successful businessman. Can one man really take on the banking giants and make a real difference to local businesses and his community Dave Fishwick certainly hopes so.

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Dave Fishwick is an inspiration * The Sun *
Bank of Dave ... is an intriguing and insanely well-timed experiment * Caitlin Moran *

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Dave Fishwick is a self-made millionaire and the focus of the Channel 4 series Bank of Dave. In 2011 Dave set up his own bank in his home town of Burnley, Lancashire to help inject much-needed life into local businesses and to prove that banks can be socially responsible by donating any profits to charity.