The Debit Is in the Details
In August, the Federal Reserve imposed a cap on the fees banks can charge retailers every time customers swipe their debit cards. Why is that important? In addition to banks, consumers may be the biggest losers.
In August, the Federal Reserve imposed a cap on the fees banks can charge retailers every time customers swipe their debit cards. Why is that important? In addition to banks, consumers may be the biggest losers.
Amy Traub | Posted 07.26.2011
Payday lending has been denounced as "a scourge on vulnerable citizens" and condemned as "modern day usury." So why do some state legislators want to introduce these predatory financial products to NY?
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Wall Street banks are deploying little-known lobbying organizations who represent companies like Pizza Hut and Radio Shack in a new push...
Elizabeth Warren | Posted 05.25.2011
Haphazard and possibly illegal practices at mortgage-servicing companies have called into question home foreclosures across the nation. The latest disclosures are deeply troubling.
Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK (AP, Candice Choi) -- The nickel-and-diming never stopped. The fees were constant: $28 to cash a paycheck. $1.50 for a money order. A doll...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011
Montana voters on Tuesday approved a ballot initiative to cap interest rates on short-term credit at 36 percent, effectively banning payday loans -- p...
Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011
Nonprofit Microlending is based on trust. For profit lending is not. This is a huge difference, and it's possible the latter could turn into a repeat of the villager loan shark mode
John Harrington | Posted 05.25.2011
$1.6 billion of interest, excessive fees, and other exorbitant costs are being charged to poor people every single day, making it almost physically and fiscally impossible for individuals to exit the poverty cycle.
Tina Dupuy | Posted 05.25.2011
When Republicans talk about freedom, they don't mean the freedom to be able to drink clean water piped into your home. When they talk about freedom, they don't mean a job that pays enough to live on.
Rohit Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011
In recent years, most of the consumer financial innovations have been largely about getting ordinary people to borrow at pricing structures that they don't completely understand.
Jerry R. Welch | Posted 05.25.2011
Rather than treat the unbanked and underbanked as second class citizens, the prepaid card industry is listening to their needs.
Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- While much of the Congressional debate over consumer financial protection has focused on banks, lawmakers have been grappling behind the...
Ryan Mack | Posted 05.25.2011
With an economy that is in a recession that feels like a depression in many cities across the country ... the sharks (financial predators) are in the water.
washingtonpost.com | Ylan Q. Mui | Posted 05.25.2011
For years, the country's makeshift network of payday lenders and check cashers has operated with little competition or federal regulation. ...
startribune.com | CHRIS SERRES, Star Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011
A few of the nation's largest banks -- including Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp, Wells Fargo & Co. of San Francisco, and Fifth Third Bancorp of Cincin...
Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011
We need to make communities strong again. Our local money does not need to be mixed in with some guy's hedge fund abstract tranche of nothing all to make a fee for some banker in New York.
Len Hollie | Posted 11.06.2011