FACUA dedicates World Consumer Rights Day to denouncing banking abuses

March 15 is celebrated as World Consumer Rights Day. This year, FACUA-Consumers in Action dedicates the commemoration to denounce the growing abuses of banking and the passivity of the competent authorities in this regard.

As part of the activities carried out by FACUA, its organizations and territorial delegations in the framework of the celebration of this World Day, during this week 450,000 leaflets are distributed to alert consumers about irregularities by financial institutions.

With the slogan «Defend yourself against bank abuses«, the association warns in this publication about how banks commit all kinds of abuses with users. From the application of disproportionate interest rates that incur in usury to the charging of commissions that did not appear in the