Standard Bank over-states its financial statements? Emerald van Zyl, the usury expert explains

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Emerald van Zyl, the usury expert who is bringing a case of discrimination against FNB in the Cape Equality Court, has now trained his sights on Standard Bank.He claims Standard has over-stated its financial statements by as much as R2 billion since 2009 through a R50 a month admin charge that was declared illegal by the Supreme Court in 2013.The amount of money is small you could easily miss it when checking your monthly statement. Who would quibble over a R50 admin charge? Van Zyl says it actually started out as a R5 a month admin charge which was introduced in 1990 under the Usury Act as a compromise to stop banks discriminating against the low-cost, predominantly black housing customers. Rather than charge low-cost (black) customers higher interest rates, banks were allowed to levy this R5 a month charge to compensate them for any financial harm they might suffer by treating customers equitably.
26 Mar 2019 1PM English South Africa Business News · Investing

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