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Millions In U.S. Do Their Banking Without Banks, According To FDIC Survey

NPR | Sam Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

About 60 million adults do their banking at places other than banks, according to a new survey by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation....

Three Cheers For Move Your Money

Time | Justin Fox | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Dennis Santiago of Institutional Risk Analytics reports that in the first seven days of the joint IRA/Huffington Post/Roosevelt Institute Move Your Mo...

Laura Bassett

As Wallets Open For Haiti, Credit Card Companies Take A Big Cut

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Update at 9:03 AM Friday: Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover have now all announced that they will waive fees for some donations related...

ATM, Checking Fees Are Skyrocketing

newsweek.com | Daniel Gross | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

And how does the industry that has received so much largesse from taxpayers repay the public? By jacking up fees for basic services. According to Bank...

Democrats Promise Changes For Bank Overdraft Fees

washingtonpost.com | Binyamin Appelbaum and Nancy Trejos | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

A backlash is brewing on Capitol Hill against banks that charge large fees for overdrafts without asking or telling customers, the latest sign that th...

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

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

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...

Banks Get Rich On Fees From 'Courtesy Overdrafts'

USA Today | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Even as regulators crack down on abusive mortgage and credit card practices, another type of lending threatens to mire consumers in a credit trap....

Bank Fees Rise As Lenders Try To Offset Losses

New York Times | ERIC DASH | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Bounced check: $32. Stop-payment: $30. A.T.M. charge: as high as $3. Even now, after all those bailouts, banks never seem to tire of dipping a litt...

Banks Raise Debit Card Fees

New York Post | catherine curan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Just weeks after President Obama signed into law new rules clamping down on runaway credit card fees, banks are accelerating their push for plastic pr...

Obama's Consumer Agency: Banks Fight To Protect Fees

bloomberg.com | Alison Vekshin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

June 25 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. banks are fighting the Obama administration plan to create a consumer agency for financial services as they seek to protec...

How To Live On $0 A Day: Where To Put Your Remaining Assets

Lesley Stern | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Lesley Stern

Many banks won't accept deposits of less than $100. Those that do tend to get a little uppity when presented with a deposit in 20 lbs. of rolled pennies.

When Did Debit Cards Become #@*!ing Credit Cards?!

Cecilia Michelson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Cecilia Michelson

Now I see that perhaps banks didn't care to explain the terms very carefully to borrowers who perhaps weren't educated enough to do the research themselves.