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When consumers step up to the cash register to pay for their holiday purchases this year, a large percentage will pay with a debit card. Debit cards have overtaken credit cards and other noncash methods as the payment of choice among consumers. Visa,...
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What would happen if you returned from work one day to find that your house just burned down, flooded, or was burglarized? As you are trying to sort out what happened, you get a phone call from your landlord, the car dealer, or even one of the utility...
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People used to tease me about this habit, some telling me to get a life (or worse). But it turns out what I do — it took just 53 seconds this morning — is the advice now commonly given to consumers to avoid rising and irritating bank and credit-card fees.
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For years during the boom, the nation's big banks pushed loans -- from home equity lines of credit to credit cards -- like they were selling fast food at a stadium concession stand...Families, bloated with debt, are hunkering down and saving again. And...
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Now some people are seeing higher fees on their checking accounts. Citibank customers with Access or EZ checking accounts will now be charged a $7.50 monthly fee unless they maintain a $1,500 balance. Previously, the monthly fee was waived if customers...
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Household customers are paying 10 percent to 21% less for service charges on their checking accounts since bank-fee reform was instituted in July 2008, the Bank of Israel reported Sunday. "Greater transparency on bank tariffs following the bank-fee reform...
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As the U.S. Government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program—TARP—-marks its one-year anniversary this Saturday, BancVue the leading provider of innovative products, dynamic marketing, and data-driven consulting solutions...
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If banks truly want to treat people with respect, they should do more to prevent customers from overdrawing their accounts. When it comes to pesky overdraft charges, most leading banks seem determined to do everything they can to help customers -- except...
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Bank is the latest financial institution to back off on the penalties customers face for overdrafting their accounts...Bank is the latest financial institution to back off on the penalties customers face for overdrafting their accounts...Bancorp, said...
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For more than a decade, the nation's payday lenders have battled the perception that they operate on the shadowy "fringe" of the mainstream financial system, outside the long reach of government regulators and rules dictating prudent lending. Now, payday...