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-- Some of the nation's biggest banks have extended temporary waivers on a variety of fees and late charges for residents of states hit hard by Super...

As millions of Americans on the East Coast awoke Tuesday to extensive power outages, flooding, mass transit shutdowns and road closures, banks in the ...

What are some of the other advantages of credit unions? People before profits. At credit unions, members are owners and have a say in how it is operated. The "profits" go to members in the form of lower fees and better rates.

I was at the ATM last week, when I saw a technician checking on the machines. He told me he checks all the machines from 6pm to 9pm everyday, looking ...

Big box retailer Walmart is taking on big bank retailers like Chase to nab a profitable demographic: low-income customers who are likely to incur tran...

With consumers expressing confusion over their banks' fee structures and banks ordering transactions in such a way as to maximize their collection of such fees, people continue to get hit with the mother of all fees.

Banks are squeezing out customers with higher costs and fewer locations. Several large midwestern banks are scaling down the number of branches the...

Bank fees are definitely not going away, but at least they are increasingly easier to find. The number of banks using simplified disclosure forms to o...

Is the era of free stuff coming to an end? Many signs would point to yes. Banks continue to slap on fees for what most considered entitled service...

SmartMoney: Is the prepaid debit card moving upmarket? In recent months, major financial institutions such as American Express and J.P. Morgan C...

Nearly any way you slice it, checking accounts became a little more expensive in the first half of 2012. However, the results also indicate that consumers still have several options for combating these costs.

Checking accounts just keep on getting more expensive. Fees on everything from ATMs withdrawals to monthly maintenance and overdrafts have risen in...

Federal Reserve rules limit the penalty fees that credit cards charge. The rules, which stem from the Credit CARD Act signed into law in May 2009, wer...

It may be harder to get cash from Bank of America as its ATM network shrinks, but starting this week it'll be easier for customers to give the bank th...

Short-lived and high-priced. Such is the life cycle of a prepaid card. Consumers only use a card for six months on average before moving on to anot...

Long before Occupy Wall Street protesters were doling out Big Bank Haterade, Main Street customers were steadily moving their money out of banks and i...

Wells Fargo pissed off the wrong customer. Earlier this week, Richard X. 'Dick' Bove, a well-known banking analyst, blasted the bank in a research ...