Overdrafts

Bank Charges Customer $300 In Overdraft Fees

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 05.02.2012

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Even if you signed up to receive overdraft notifications from your bank, you may still be surprised by unwelcome overdraft fees piling up against your...

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Big Banks Still Raking In Billions From Overdraft Fees

Posted 12.21.2011

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Despite bank officials wailing about how financial reforms may hurt their bottom line, banks will rake in billions this year thanks to fees they're ch...

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Bank May Face Class-Action Suit From Customers For Overdraft Fees

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 09.27.2011

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In 2003, the San Francisco-based Union Bank adopted a new practice that allowed it to begin charging its customers more overdraft fees. Now, the custo...

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Zach Carter

Payday Loan Kingpin Praises Elizabeth Warren

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 07.10.2011

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This article has been updated WASHINGTON -- The Chairman of the nation's largest payday lending outifit is making the rounds in the nation's capita...

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Weekly Audit: Are Handouts For Billionaires More Important Than Feeding Children?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Media Consortium

by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger The crazy conservative assault on government spending has become one of the most irrational economic policy d...

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Weekly Audit: Why Elizabeth Warren Should Head New Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Media Consortium

by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger With the Wall Street reform bill finally cleared through Congress, activists and intellectuals are pushin...

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Arthur Delaney

Chase's Overdraft Opt-Out: Deliberately Confusing?

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

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Credit card reform requires banks by July to get permission before providing "overdraft protection," which hits customers with fees of $30 or more to ...

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Arthur Delaney

Man Infuriated By Overdraft Fee Jailed After Threatening To Rob Bank

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

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A 40-year-old Pennsylvania man is in jail after threatening to rob his local Bank of America branch in revenge for an overdraft fee. Francis Coleman,...

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Arthur Delaney

BofA Customer: 'Why Can't I See Why You Took My Money?'

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vartan Altounian has a simple question: Why did Bank of America hit his checking account with two $35 overdraft fees on Dec. 17 if his balance summary...

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Arthur Delaney

29 Overdraft Fees In 27 Days: Birthday Spoiled By Bank Statement

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

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Matthew Miller of San Pedro, Calif. spent $2,395 from his checking account during the month of October. He deposited $3,445 on top of a starting balan...

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Overdraft Fees: U.S. Banks To Make $38 Billion

Yahoo! News | Mon Aug 10, 3:43 Am ET | Posted 05.25.2011

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Banks in the United States are poised to make $38.5 billion in customer overdraft fees this year, the Financial Times said, citing research by Moebs S...

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Quick on the Draw -- and the Overdraw

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.17.2011

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Rick Horowitz

I've tiptoed only so far into Techno-Dollar World. I finally started paying some of my bills online. Which was more than enough to get me into hot water.

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