I shall certainly be looking into changing my bank after hearing about this, as well as telling all my friends.

Keith Ryan, Stockton-on-Tees, UK

Dont forget that the Bagworthy Land Company, which buys up land on Exmoor tat premium rates to extract the hunting rights and then re-sells it to therefore poorer farmers is owned and run by the hunt with funding from the profits of insurance in the last century. The Bagworthy land Company ( Chairman Tom Yandle, Master of Devon and Somerset Staghounds) banned the public two years ago in a fit of pique from access to Snowdrop Valley, a local beauty spot with fabulous drifts of snowdrops, because of the publics support for the hunting ban.

ct, exmoor, somerset

I will make sure that any friends and family who are current customers at HSBC know about their unethical and appalling arrangement with this sadistic, perverted minority, who still get enjoyment from blood 'sports'. I am sure they will not remain customers for much longer!

Patricia Hall, Gidea Park, Romford, UK

Hunting is an obscenity and an insult to decent human beings. For an organisation of HSBC's standing to support hunting by providing insurance cover is repugnant. As an HSBC customer for many years, I shall now review HSBC's latest position on this before I move my business elsewhere.

Nigel Greaves, Lichfield, Staffordshire

Firstly to H. Found - you cannot justify hunting however you try and it is even more abhorent for you to try and justify hunting mamed, injured, old and mangy foxes.

To B J Deller in Spain - why don't your comments surprise me. Bull fighting will be banned!

And to HSBC - it just reinforces my opinion of the Old Boys network and the establishment. Can just see you all guffawing about it all in your old boys clubs drinky brandy. A few Hunt Masters on the board eh. I suggest you take note of what your ordinary customers think and this is well out of order.

TC Cheltenham

Tracey Chittock, Cheltenham, Glos

I cannot believe that a 'reputable' company will provide insurance cover, even if there is a guilty verdit. I am amazed that misinformation still abounds when it comes to cruelty within the hunting 'industry': squalid conditions for hounds, who are then shot when their useful lives are over and fed to the pack; terrified foxes and deer running for their lives, before being torn limb from limb; hunters illegally trespassing; the killing of domestic and farm animals by hounds; intimidation & violence towards people campaigning for an end to hunting (recently hunters have been prosocuted and found guilty of assault - protected by HSBC insurance??); ASBO's threatend against several hunts etc. etc. There is no place in a modern and civilised world for this cruel and sadistic 'sport'. Thank goodness I am not an HSBC customer.

Selina Williams, Carterton, United Kingdom

WELL DONE HSBC. A BLOW TO THE BAN IT ALL BRIGADE.

KEITH HUNTLEY, EBBW VALE, WALES

It is clear the master of foxhounds association is intending to break the law by insuring itself against prosecution for illeagal foxhunting and other animal abuses also the HSBC bank is colluding with them to prevert justice as they will be bankrolling any fines imposed on them. This cannot be allowed to continue as banks should not be suppoting criminal activites. In my view jail sentences must be imposed for this type of criminal offence as fines are not an effective way of dealing with this type of criminal.

Peter Sowerby, Southampton, uk

I am astounded at the number of misinformed people there still are out there; if you are worried then please do a lot more research before you make allegations of cruelty,
weirdoism,bloodthirstyness, criminals etc.. Hounds do not tear live foxes apart , if the Huntsman allows them they may 'break up' their fox but only after it is dead. Hunted foxes either get clean away unscathed or are killed - no half measures as can happen with guns however experienced the marksman. Fit foxes are not usually the ones who cause trouble to farmers, it is the ones who can no longer hunt for their food or travel the long distances covered by a fox on his nightly jaunts. Mamed, injured,old and mangy foxes are usually the ones which are killed by Hounds thereby saving them a long and lingering painful death out there in the wild. Hunting helps keep the fox population healthy and controls numbers enough for farmers to tolerate. It is not a criminal offence but equal in stature to illegal parking.

H. Found, Isle of Wight,

I'd say a boycott was in order. Any supposedly respectable company prepared to stand up and support weird, cruel, cowardly antisocial behaviour needs to be avoided.

When will these pro hunt fruitcakes get it into their head that we, society are no more willing to accept their behaviour, then we are are for any criminal/weirdo!

HSBC are off my business list now!

Gareth, Aberdare, Wales