Why there is much to do on financial d/Deaf inclusion

Offering diverse communication channels is important

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Zurich's Peter Hamilton also works as the government disability and access ambassador for the insurance sector. Here he shares his thoughts on the importance of d/Deaf community inclusion across financial services...

Officers, what offence have these men done?   Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves. The exchange comes not, as might easily be thought, from the recent House of Commons Privileges Committee report on ‘Partygate', but from Shakespeare's ‘Much Ado About Nothing'. He had a way with words. ‘All the world's a stage', we're told in ‘As You Like It', a play I saw recently at Soho Place ...

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