{"id":40379,"date":"2013-10-04T15:15:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T15:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_church_of_england_commissioners_pursue_reform_by_backing_new_b\/"},"modified":"2013-10-04T15:15:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T15:15:51","slug":"church_times_church_of_england_commissioners_pursue_reform_by_backing_new_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40379","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Church of England Commissioners pursue reform by backing new bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE decision by the Church Commissioners to join a new banking consortium marks a new hands-on approach to investment, the Commissioners&#8217; Secretary and chief executive, Andrew Brown, said this week.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Brown spoke to the Church Times after the banking giant Royal Bank of Scotland&#8230;announced that a Commissioners&#8217; backed consortium had been selected as the preferred bidder for 314 of its branches, which will be spun off from the bank to comply with European Union state-aid regulations. The plan is for a new ethical bank under the old Williams &#038; Glyn&#8217;s brand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2013\/4-october\/news\/uk\/commissioners-pursue-reform-by-backing-new-bank\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE decision by the Church Commissioners to join a new banking consortium marks a new hands-on approach to investment, the Commissioners&#8217; Secretary and chief executive, Andrew Brown, said this week. Mr Brown spoke to the Church Times after the banking<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40379\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,50,74,389,149,199,108,585],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture","category-the-banking-systemsector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}